121Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind.He continually multiplies lies and desolation.They make a covenant with Assyria,and oil is carried into Egypt.+2Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah,and will punish Jacob according to his ways;according to his deeds he will repay him.+3In the womb he took his brother by the heel;and in his manhood he contended with God.+4Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;he wept, and made supplication to him.He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,+5even Yahweh, the God of Armies;Yahweh is his name of renown!+6Therefore turn to your God.Keep kindness and justice,and wait continually for your God.+7A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.He loves to defraud.+8Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,I have found myself wealth.In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”+9“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.I will yet again make you dwell in tents,as in the days of the solemn feast.+10I have also spoken to the prophets,and I have multiplied visions;and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.+11If Gilead is wicked,surely they are worthless.In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.+12Jacob fled into the country of Aram,and Israel served to get a wife,and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.+13By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt,and by a prophet he was preserved.+14Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.Therefore his blood will be left on him,and his Lord will repay his contempt.+Footnotes (1)
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