en_tn/hos/13/12.md

General Information:

Yahweh is speaking.

Ephraim's iniquity has been stored up; his guilt has been stored up

These two phrases are similar and mean basically the same thing. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-parallelism)

has been stored up

The northern kingdom's iniquity and guilt are spoken of as if they were objects that could be kept for a purpose. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)