Noah Webster Bible

Hosea 11

The Book of Hosea

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Chapter 12

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  Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily multiplieth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.  

 

 

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  The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.  

 

 

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  He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:  

 

 

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  Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with us;  

 

 

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  Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.  

 

 

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  Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.  

 

 

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  He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.  

 

 

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  And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found for myself substance: in all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that were sin.  

 

 

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  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.  

 

 

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  I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.  

 

 

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  Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.  

 

 

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  And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.  

 

 

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  And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.  

 

 

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  Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore will he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach will his Lord return to him.  

 

 

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Hosea 13

 

 

 

 

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