1. Ephraim chases the wind and pursues the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and violence.He makes a covenant with Assyria, and olive oil is carried to Egypt.
2. The Lord also has a dispute with Judah.He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways; He will repay him based on his actions.
3. In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and as an adult he wrestled with God.
4. Jacob struggled with the Angel and prevailed;he wept and sought His favor. He found him at Bethel, and there He spoke with him.
5. Yahweh is the God of Hosts;Yahweh is His name.
6. But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.
7. A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.
8. But Ephraim says:“How rich I have become; I made it all myself.In all my earnings,no one can find any crime in me that I can be punished for! ”
9. I have been Yahweh your Godever since the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.
10. I spoke through the prophets and granted many visions;I gave parables through the prophets.
11. Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing.They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like heaps of rocks on the furrows of a field.
12. Jacob fled to the land of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.
13. The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.
14. Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.