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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.
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.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb,
and by his strength he had power with God:
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;
5 Even the Lord God of hosts;
the Lord is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn thou to thy God:
keep mercy and judgment
and wait on thy God continually.
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand:
he loveth to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said,
I have found me out substance:
in all my labours they shall find
none iniquity in me that were sin.
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.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets,
and I have multiplied visions,
and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria,
and Israel served for a wife,
and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,
and by a prophet was he preserved.
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.