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Hosea 12
¹⁰ I have also spoken to the prophets, And I gave numerous visions, And through the prophets I gave parables.
¹¹ Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps Beside the furrows of the field.
¹² Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.
¹³ But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept.
¹⁴ Ephraim has provoked to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him And bring back his reproach to him.
Hosea 13
¹ When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling. He exalted himself in Israel, But through Baal he did wrong and died.
² And now they sin more and more, And make for themselves molten images, Idols skillfully made from their silver, All of them the work of craftsmen. They say of them, "Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!"
³ Therefore they will be like the morning cloud And like dew which soon disappears, Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor And like smoke from a chimney.
⁴ Yet I have been the Lord your God Since the land of Egypt; And you were not to know any god except Me, For there is no savior besides Me.
⁵ I cared for you in the wilderness, In the land of drought.
⁶ As they had their pasture, they became satisfied, And being satisfied, their heart became proud; Therefore they forgot Me.