Osee 12

¹Ephraim feedeth the wind, and followeth the heat: all the day he multiplieth lying and waste: and he hath made a league with the Assyrians, and he carried oil into Ægypt.

²The judgement therefore of our Lord with Juda, and visitation upon Jacob: according to his ways, & according to his inventions he will render to him.

³In the womb he supplanted his brother: and in his strength he was directed with the Angel.

⁴And he prevailed against the Angel, and was strengthened: and he wept, and besought him: in Bethel he found him, and there he spake with us.

⁵And our Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.

⁶And thou shalt convert to thy God: keep mercy and judgement, & hope in thy God always.

⁷Chanaan in his hand a deceitful balance, he hath loved calumny.

⁸And Ephraim said: But yet I am made rich, I have found an idol to myself: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity, which I have sinned.

⁹And I the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt I will yet make thee sit in tabernacles, as in the days of festivity.

¹⁰And I have spoken upon the Prophets, and I have multiplied vision, and in the hand of the Prophets I have been resembled.

¹¹If an idol in Galaad, then in vain were they in Galgal immolating with oxen: for their altars also as heaps upon the furrows of the field.

¹²Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept her.

¹³But by a Prophet our Lord brought Israel out of Ægypt: and by a Prophet he was preserved.

¹⁴Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath in his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his reproach his Lord will restore to him.