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Hosea 12:7-14

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7A merchant, in whose hands are fraudulent balances,

Loves to exploit.

8And Ephraim said, “I have certainly become rich,

I have found wealth for myself;

In all my labors they will find in me

No wrongdoing, which would be sin.”

9But I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt;

I will make you live in tents again,

As in the days of the appointed festival.

10I have also spoken to the prophets,

And I provided many visions,

And through the prophets I spoke in parables.

11Is there injustice in Gilead?

Certainly they are worthless.

In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,

Yes, their altars are like stone heaps

Beside the furrows of a field.

12Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram,

And Israel worked for a wife,

And for a wife he kept sheep.

13But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt,

And by a prophet he was protected.

14Ephraim has provoked God to bitter anger;

So his Lord will leave his guilt for bloodshed on him

And bring his disgrace back to him.