Hosea 12:5-14
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5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
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6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
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7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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8 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.
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9 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.
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10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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11 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.
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12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
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13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
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14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.