Chapter 12

The people by their sins procure their own miseries, ℣.3 not regarding Jacob's virtues.

1. 1

   Ephraim feedeth the wind, and followeth the heat: all the day he multiplieth lying and waste: and he hath made a league with the Assyrians, and he carried oil into Ægypt.

2. 2

   The judgement therefore of our Lord with Juda, and visitation upon Jacob: according to his ways, & according to his inventions he will render to him.

3. 3

   In the womb he supplanted his brother: and in his strength he was directed with the Angel.

4. 4

   And he prevailed against the Angel, and was strengthened: and he wept, and besought him: in Bethel he found him, and there he spake with us.

5. 5

   And our Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.

6. 6

   And thou shalt convert to thy God: keep mercy and judgement, & hope in thy God always.

7. 7

   Chanaan in his hand a deceitful balance, he hath loved calumny.

8. 8

   And Ephraim said: But yet I am made rich, I have found an idol to my self: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity, which I have sinned.

9. 9

   And I, the Lord thy God out of the Land of Ægypt I will yet make thee sit in tabernacles, as in the days of festivity.

10. 10

    And I have spoken upon the Prophets, and I have multiplied vision, and in the hand of the Prophets I have been resembled.

11. 11

    If an idol in Galaad, then in vain were they in Galgal immolating with oxen: for their altars also as heaps upon the furrows of the field.

12. 12

    Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept her.

13. 13

    But by a Prophet our Lord brought Israel out of Ægypt: and by a Prophet he was preserved.

14. 14

    Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath in his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his reproach his Lord will restore to him.