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- ¶ EPHRAIM feeds on wind and follows after the tempest all the day long;
they have multiplied lies and prey; they have made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
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- The LORD has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways;
and according to his devices will he recompense him.
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- In the womb he deceived his brother, and by his might he became great in the presence of God;
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- Yea, he prevailed over the angel, he made supplication to him;
he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with him.
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- Even the LORD the God of hosts has remembered him.
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- Therefore return to your God;
keep mercy and justice, and wait for your God continually.
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- ¶ The balances of deceit are in the hand of Canaan, he loves to oppress.
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- And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found grief;
but all my labors will not be enough to rid me of the sin which I have sinned.
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- I am the LORD your God who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
I will again make you to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feasts.
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- I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
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- In Gilead you suffered pain, and in Gilgal you sacrificed bullocks to falsehood;
your altars are like dry stalks in a barren field.
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- Jacob fled to the land of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
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- And by the prophets the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by the prophets was he preserved.
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- Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly;
therefore his blood shall come upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return to him.
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