7. A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.He loves to defraud.
8. Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,I have found myself wealth.In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
9. “But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt.I will yet again make you dwell in tents,as in the days of the solemn feast.
10. I have also spoken to the prophets,and I have multiplied visions;and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.
11. If Gilead is wicked,surely they are worthless.In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
12. Jacob fled into the country of Aram,and Israel served to get a wife,and for a wife he tended flocks and herds.
13. By a prophet the Lord brought Israel up out of Egypt,and by a prophet he was preserved.