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• 1. Ephraim feeds on the wind; he pursues the east wind all day and multiplies lies and violence. He makes a treaty with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.

• 2. The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

• 3. In the womb he grasped his brother's heel; as a man he struggled with God.

• 4. He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there--

• 5. the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is his name of renown!

• 6. But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.

• 7. The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud.

• 8. Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin."

• 9. "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed feasts.

• 10. I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them."

• 11. Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.

• 12. Jacob fled to the country of Aram; Israel served to get a wife, and to pay for her he tended sheep.

• 13. The LORD used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt, by a prophet he cared for him.

• 14. But Ephraim has bitterly provoked him to anger; his Lord will leave upon him the guilt of his bloodshed and will repay him for his contempt.