Hosea Chapter Twelve

1    EPHRAIM feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind:  he daily increaseth lies and desolation; 
    and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.

2    The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; 
    according to his doings will he recompense him.

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

4    Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed:  he wept, and made supplication unto him:  he found
    him in Beth-el, and there he spake with us;

5    Even the LORD God of hosts, the LORD is his memorial.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

    Hosea Chapter Twelve - KJV