6. And thou, return unto thy God keep loving-kindness and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
7. He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.
8. And Ephraim saith, Nevertheless 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. But I that am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt will again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10. And I have spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by means of the prophets have I used similitudes.
11. If Gilead is iniquity, surely they are but 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 Jehovah brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14. Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly; and his Lord shall leave his blood upon him, and recompense unto him his reproach.