Old Testament · BSB
Hosea 12
Berean Standard Bible · 14 verses
- Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
- In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
- Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
- the LORD is the God of Hosts—the LORD is His name of renown.
- But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
- A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
- And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”
- But I am the LORD your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
- I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
- Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
- Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
- Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.