1Ephraim keepeth the air, and followeth after the east wind: he is ever increasing lies and destruction. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oil is carried into Egypt.
2The LORD hath a court to hold with Judah, and will punish Jacob: After their own ways and according to their own inventions, shall he recompense them.
3He took his brother by the heel, when he was yet in his mother's womb: and in his strength he wrestled with God.
4He strove with the angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayed and desired him. He found(fande) him at Bethel, and there he talked with us.
5Yea the LORD God of hosts, even the LORD him self remembered him:
6Then turn to thy God, keep mercy and equity, and hope still in thy God.
7But the merchant hath a false weight in his hand, he hath a pleasure to occupy extortion.
8Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I have good enough: In all my works shall not one fault be found, that I have offended.
9Yet am I the LORD thy God, even as when I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and set thee in thy tents, and as in the high feast days.
10I have spoken thorow the prophets, and shewed divers visions, and declared myself by the ministration of the prophets.
11But at Gilead is the abomination, they are fallen to vanity. At Gilgal they have slain oxen: and as many heaps of stones as they had in their land furrows, so many alters have they made.
12Jacob fled into the land of Syria, and Israell served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13By a prophet the LORD brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophet he preserved them.
14But Ephraim hath provoked him to displeasure thorow his abominations; therefore shall his blood be poured upon himself, and the Lord(LORDE) his God shall reward him his blasphemies.