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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. 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, 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. 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.