| 12:1 | Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. |
| 12:2 | The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him. |
| 12:3 | He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God: |
| 12:4 | Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; |
| 12:5 | Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial. |
| 12:6 | Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. |
| 12:7 | He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress. |
| 12:8 | And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. |
| 12:9 | And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. |
| 12:10 | I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets. |
| 12:11 | Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. |
| 12:12 | And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep. |
| 12:13 | And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. |
| 12:14 | Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him. |
| 12:14 | 以法蓮大大惹動主怒、所以他流血的罪、必歸在他身上、主必將那因以法蓮所受的羞辱歸還他。 |
| 12:14 | 以法莲大大惹动主怒，所以他流血的罪，必归在他身上，主必将那因以法莲所受的羞辱归还他。 |
| 2ki:17:11 | And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger: |
| 2ki:17:17 | And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. |
| 2ki:17:18 | Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. |
| dan:11:18 | After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. |
| jer:24:9 | And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. |
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