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Hosea 12:3-14

  1. He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:

  2. 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;

  3. Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.

  4. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.

  5. He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.

  9. 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.

  10. And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.

  11. And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

  12. Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.