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1Ephraim chases the wind[#Or feeds on, or tends; #Jr 22:22; Hs 4:19]
and pursues the east wind.
He continually multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a covenant with Assyria,
and olive oil is carried to Egypt.
2The Lord also has a dispute with Judah.
He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him based on his actions.
3In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,[#Gn 25:26; 27:36]
and as an adult he wrestled with God.
4Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;
he wept and sought His favor.
He found him at Bethel,
and there He spoke with him.
5Yahweh is the God of Hosts;
Yahweh is His name.
6But you must return to your God.[#Hs 6:1-3; 10:12]
Maintain love and justice,
and always put your hope in God.
7A merchant loves to extort[#Hs 7:14]
with dishonest scales in his hands.
8But Ephraim says:
“How rich I have become;
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any crime in me
that I can be punished for! ”
9I have been Yahweh your God
ever since the land of Egypt.
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the festival days.
10I spoke through the prophets[#Jr 7:25]
and granted many visions;
I gave parables through the prophets.
11Since Gilead is full of evil,[#Hs 6:8]
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.
12Jacob fled to the land of Aram.[#Gn 28:5]
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.
13The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,[#Ex 14:19-22; Is 63:11-14]
and Israel was tended by a prophet.
14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,[#2Kg 17:7-18]
so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him
and repay him for his contempt.