4. Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh [by] weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,
5. Even Jehovah, God of the Hosts, Jehovah [is] His memorial.
6. And thou, through thy God, dost turn, Kindness and judgment keep thou, And wait on thy God continually.
7. Canaan! in his hand [are] balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
8. And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours--they find not against me iniquity that [is] sin.'
9. And I--Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt, Again do I turn thee back into tents, As in the days of the appointed time.
10. And I have spoken unto the prophets, And I have multiplied vision, And by the hand of the prophets I use similes.
11. Surely Gilead [is] iniquity, Only, vanity they have been, In Gilead bullocks they have sacrificed, Also their altars [are] as heaps, on the furrows of a field.