1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and follows after the East wind: he daily increases lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into  Egypt.
2 Jehovah  has also a controversy with Judah, and will correct Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
3 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
4 yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us;
5 Even Jehovah  God of hosts; Jehovah  is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn you to your God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on your God continually.
7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress.
8 And Ephraim said, Yet I have become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
9 And I that am Jehovah  your God from the land of Egypt will yet make you to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
10 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used types [things that are similar], by the ministry of the prophets.
11 Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are emptiness: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
13 And by a prophet Jehovah  brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return to him.