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The Prophecy
of Osee 12
Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning
heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation:
and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and
carried oil into Egypt.
Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda,
and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according
to his ways, and according to his devices.
In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength
he had success with an angel.
And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened:
he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him
in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment,
and hope in thy God always.
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in
his hand, he hath loved oppression.
And Ephraim said: But yet I am be- come rich, I have
found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the
iniquity that I have committed.
And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt,
will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the
days of the feast.
And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied
visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry
of the prophets.
If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal
offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars
also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served
for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt:
and he was pre- served by a prophet.
Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness,
and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will
render his reproach unto him.
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