Hosea 12 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

¹ Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt

² And a contention to Jehovah with Judah, and to review Jacob according to his ways; he will turn back to him according to his doings.

³ In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.

⁴ And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.

⁵ And Jehovah God of armies, Jehovah his remembrance.

⁶ And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.

⁷ Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.

⁸ And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.

⁹ And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will even cause thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointment

¹⁰ And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.

¹¹ If Gilead nothing? Surely they were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed oxen; also their altars as heaps upon the furrows of the field.

¹² And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.

¹³ And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was perserved

¹⁴ Ephraim provoked bitternesses, and bloods shall fly swiftly upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord turn back to him.