1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)
Hosea 12
1 A reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob. 3 By former favours he exhorteth to repentance. 7 Ephraim's sins provoke God.
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12:1 ¶
Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.
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12:2
Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and according to his devices.
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12:3 ¶
In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.
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12:4
And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
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12:5
Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
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12:6
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.
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12:7 ¶
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
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12:8
And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.
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12:9
And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.
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12:10
And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
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12:11
If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
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12:12
Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
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12:13
But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.
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12:14
Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.