Hosea 12:7-14

7A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

8But Ephraim thinks, “How rich I have become; I made it all myself. In all my earnings, no one can find any iniquity in me that I can be punished for!”

9I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.

10I will speak through the prophets and grant many visions; I will give parables through the prophets.

11Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing. They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like piles of rocks on the furrows of a field.

12Jacob fled to the territory of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.

13The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.

14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.