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📚✭Ephraim feeds on the wind,and follows the east wind.
Daily he multiplies lies
and violence.
And they make a covenant
with the Assyrians,
and oil is carried into Egypt.
2 📚The LORD also brings a charge
against Judah✭,
and will punish Jacob✭ according
to his ways;
according to his deeds
he will repay him.
3 📚In the womb he took
his brother by the heel,
and with his strength
he struggled with God.
4 📚Yes, he struggled with the angel✭,
and prevailed. He wept,
and pleaded with him.
He found him at Bethel✭,
and there he spoke with us,
5 📚that is, the LORD✭ God of hosts;
the LORD is his
memorial name.
6 📚✭Therefore turn to your God.
Maintain mercy and justice✭,
and wait✭ on your God continually.
7 📚✭A merchant with the balances
of deceit in his hand loves to oppress;
8 📚And Ephraim says,
“Surely I have become rich✭,
I have found wealth for myself.
In all my labours
they will find no evil in me
that can be called sin✭”.
9 📚“But I, who am the LORD
your God since the land of Egypt✭,
will make you live in tents again✭,
as in the days of the appointed feast.
10 📚I have also spoken✭
by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions✭,
and given parables✭ through
the prophets✭”.
11 📚Is there wickedness in Gilead✭?
Surely they are worthless.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal✭; yes,
their altars are like heaps of stones
in a plowed field.
12 📚✭And Jacob fled to the country
of Syria,
and Israel served to get
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 he was preserved.
14 📚✭Ephraim provoked him
to anger most bitterly.
Therefore his Lord will leave
his bloodguilt✭ on him,
and bring back his scorn onto him.