Page 12 of  14

Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt (12:1)

The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him (12:2)

He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: (12:3)

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us; (12:4)

Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord [is] his memorial (12:5)

Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually (12:6)

[He is] a merchant, the balances of deceit [are] in his hand: he loveth to oppress (12:7)

And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that [were] sin (12:8)

And I [that am] the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast (12:9)

I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets (12:10)

[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields (12:11)

And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep] (12:12)

And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved (12:13)

Ephraim provoked [him] to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him (12:14)

Get Next Chapter