1Ephraim and Judah are both reproved. 3In consideration of God's former favours to Jacob they are exhorted to repent. 7Ephraim's sins and ingratitude provoke God.
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1Ephraim feedeth on 1wind, and followeth after the east wind: 2he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and 3they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and 4oil is carried into Egypt.
21The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will apunish Jacob according to his ways; according to his 2doings will he recompense him.
3¶ He took his brother 1by the heel in the womb, and by his strength 2he ahad power with God:
4Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in1Beth-el, and there he spake 2with us;
5Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lordis his 1memorial.
61Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7¶ He isaa merchant, the 1balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to boppress.
8And Ephraim said, 1Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: ain all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me bthat were sin.
9And I 1that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt 2will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10I have also 1spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used 2similitudes, aby the ministry of the prophets.
111Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, 2their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12And Jacob 1fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
131And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
141Ephraim provoked him to anger amost bitterly: 2therefore shall he leave his bblood upon him, and his 3reproach shall his Lord return unto him.