But you must return to your God.(A)
Maintain love and justice,(B)
and always put your hope in God.(C)

A merchant loves to extort(D)
with dishonest scales in his hands.(E)
But Ephraim thinks,
“How rich I have become;(F)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any iniquity in me(G)
that I can be punished for!” [a]

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Footnotes

  1. 12:8 Lit iniquity which is sin

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