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

Judgment on Apostate Israel

I have been Yahweh your God
ever since[b] the land of Egypt.(E)
I will make you live in tents again,(F)
as in the festival days.
10 I spoke through the prophets(G)
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.(H)
11 Since Gilead is full of evil,(I)
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;(J)
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks(K)
on the furrows of a field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 12:8 Lit crime which is sin
  2. Hosea 12:9 LXX reads God who brought you out of

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