# Hosea 12

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/12

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Ephraim feeds on the wind and chases the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.
2. Yahweh has a case against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.
3. In the womb he grabbed his brother’s heel, and in his manhood he struggled with God.
4. He struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—
5. Yahweh, the God of Armies, Yahweh is the name by which he is remembered.
6. As for you, return to your God; hold on to faithful love and justice, and wait for your God continually.
7. A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand; he loves to defraud.
8. Ephraim says, “I have indeed become rich; I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they will find in me no iniquity that is sin.”
9. I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt; I will again make you live in tents, as in the days of the appointed feast.
10. I spoke to the prophets; it was I who multiplied visions, and through the prophets I spoke in parables.
11. If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls; their altars too will be like heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.
12. Jacob fled to the country of Aram; Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he tended sheep.
13. By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up from Egypt, and by a prophet Israel was tended.
14. Ephraim has bitterly provoked him to anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and pay him back for his contempt.

## Nearby chapters

[Hosea 11](https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/11.md)
[Hosea 13](https://www.lumin.faith/read/hosea/13.md)

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