Old Testament · Prophets

Hosea chapter 12

feeds on , chasing the east wind all day long— piling up and violence. They cut deals with Assyria while shipping olive oil to Egypt.Yahweh has a against Judah too. He will hold accountable for how they’ve lived— pay them back for what they’ve done.In the womb he ; as a grown man he .He wrestled with the and won— he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at , and there God spoke with us., — Yahweh is the name he’s known by.So to your God. Hold on to and , and wait for your God always.A with in his hands— he loves to cheat people.And Ephraim says, ‘Look how rich I’ve gotten! I’ve built all this for myself. In everything I’ve earned, no one will find anything wrong—nothing that counts as .’But I am Yahweh your God . I will make you live in again, like in the days of the .I spoke through the ; I gave vision after vision. Through the prophets I to reach you.If is wicked, they will surely come to nothing. In they sacrifice bulls— so their altars will become rubble, like in a plowed field.Jacob fled to the . Israel to win a wife— for a wife, he tended sheep.And through a , Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt; through a prophet, they were .Ephraim has . will leave his on him and throw his back in his face.