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[1]But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
[2]And the Lord has a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
[3]He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.
[4]And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there a word was spoken to them.
[5]But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
[6]Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
[7]As for Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannize.
[8]And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found available to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
[9]But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
[10]And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
[11]If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
[12]And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
[13]And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.
[14]Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
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