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Hosea 12:8

Young's Literal Translation 1862

And Ephraim saith: `Surely I have become rich, I have found wealth for myself, All my labours -- they find not against me iniquity that `is' sin.'

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Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.

`Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

Balances of deceit `are' an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight `is' His delight.

A generation -- pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.

So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

And thou sayest, `Because I have been innocent, Surely turned back hath His anger from me?' Lo, I have been judged with thee, Because of thy saying, `I have not sinned.'

As a cage full of fowls, So their houses are full of deceit, Therefore they have been great, and are rich.

By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

Turn back, O Israel, unto Jehovah thy God, For thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.

The sin of My people they do eat, And unto their iniquity lift up their soul.

Saying, When doth the new moon pass, And we sell ground corn? And the sabbath, and we open out pure corn? To make little the ephah, And to make great the shekel, And to use perversely balances of deceit.

Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them `is' his portion fertile, and his food fat.

Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed `is' Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said unto Jesus, `And who is my neighbour?'

and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years, be resting, eat, drink, be merry.

`No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;

and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,




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