Hosea 12:7-14

7The businessmen love to cheat; they use dishonest scales.

8Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich! I have become wealthy! In all that I have done to gain my wealth, no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”

9“I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

10I spoke to the prophets; I myself revealed many visions; I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

11Is there idolatry in Gilead? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!

12Jacob fled to the country of Aram, then Israel worked to acquire a wife; he tended sheep to pay for her.

13The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet, and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.

14But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.