1Ephraim is fed with the wind, and followeth after the East wind: he increaseth daily lies and destruction, and they do make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will visit Jacob, according to his ways: according to his works, will he recompense him.
3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God,
4And had power over the Angel, and prevailed: he wept and prayed unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us.
5Yea, the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is himself his memorial.
6Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope still in thy God.
7He is Canaan: the balances of decree are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
8And Ephraim said, Notwithstanding I am rich, I have found me out riches in all my labors: they shall find none iniquity in me, that were wickedness.
9Though I am the Lord thy God, from the land of Egypt, yet will I make thee to dwell in the tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10I have also spoken by the Prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes by the ministry of the Prophets.
11Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal, and their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep,
13And by a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a Prophet was he reserved.
14But Ephraim provoked him with high places: therefore shall his blood be poured upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord reward him.