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Hosea 12:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.

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Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Scales of deceit are hated by the Lord, but a true weight is his delight.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;

And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall.

The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;

For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

Whose owners put them to death and have no sense of sin; and those who get a price for them say, May the Lord be praised for I have much wealth: and the keepers of the flock have no pity for them.

You have made the Lord tired with your words. And still you say, How have we made him tired? By your saying, Everyone who does evil is good in the eyes of the Lord, and he has delight in them; or, Where is God the judge?

Your words have been strong against me, says the Lord. And still you say, What have we said against you?

But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.

Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.




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