7. He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
8. And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.
9. But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10. I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
11. Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12. And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13. And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14. Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.