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\c 12
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\q
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\v 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind
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\q and follows after the east wind.
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\q He continually multiplies lies and violence.
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\q They make a covenant with Assyria
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\q and carry olive oil to Egypt.
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh also has a lawsuit against Judah
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\q and will punish Jacob for what he has done;
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\q he will repay him for his deeds.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 In the womb Jacob grasped his brother by the heel,
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\q and in his manhood he struggled with God.
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\q
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\v 4 He struggled with the angel and won.
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\q He wept and begged for his favor.
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\q He met God at Bethel;
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\q there God spoke with him.
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\q
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\v 5 This is Yahweh, the God of hosts;
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\q "Yahweh" is his name to be called on.
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\q
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\v 6 So turn to your God.
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\q Keep covenantal faithfulness and justice,
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\q and wait continually for your God.
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\p
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\q
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\v 7 The merchants have false scales in their hands;
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\q they love to defraud.
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\q
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\v 8 Ephraim said, "I have certainly become very rich;
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\q I have found wealth for myself.
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\q In all my work they will not find any iniquity in me,
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\q anything that would be sin."
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\q
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\v 9 "I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.
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\q I will again make you live in tents,
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\q as in the days of the appointed festival.
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\q
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\v 10 I spoke to the prophets,
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\q and I gave them many visions for you
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\q and by the hand of the prophets I gave parables."
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\q
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\v 11 If there is wickedness in Gilead,
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\q surely the people are worthless.
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\q In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls;
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\q their altars will be like heaps of stone in the furrows of the fields.
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\q
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\v 12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
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\q Israel worked in order to get a wife;
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\q and he kept flocks of sheep to get a wife.
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\q
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\v 13 Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet,
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\q and by a prophet he took care of them.
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\q
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\v 14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked Yahweh to anger.
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\q So his Lord will leave the guilt of his blood on him
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\q and will repay him for his disgraceful deeds.
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