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class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">He continually multiplies lies and violence.</p><p class="poem">He makes a covenant with Assyria,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.1.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">and olive oil is carried to Egypt.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.1.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">d</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> also has a dispute with Judah.</p><p class="poem">He is about to punish Jacob according to his conduct;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">he will repay him based on his actions.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.3.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and as an adult he wrestled with God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.3.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Jacob struggled with the angel and prevailed;</p><p class="poem">he wept and sought his favor.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">He found him at Bethel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.4.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">and there he spoke with him.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.12.4.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.4.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is the God of Armies;</p><p class="poem">the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> is his name.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But you must return to your God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Maintain love and justice,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.6.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">and always put your hope in God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.6.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A merchant loves to extort<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">with dishonest scales in his hands.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.7.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But Ephraim thinks,</p><p class="poem">“How rich I have become;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I made it all myself.</p><p class="poem">In all my earnings,</p><p class="poem">no one can find any iniquity in me<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.8.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">that I can be punished for! ”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.12.8.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">Judgment on Apostate Israel</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>I have been the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> your God</p><p class="poem">ever since<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Hosea.12.9.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> the land of Egypt.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I will make you live in tents again,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.9.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">as in the festival days.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I will speak through the prophets<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and grant many visions;</p><p class="poem">I will give parables through the prophets.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.10.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Since Gilead is full of evil,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.11.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">they will certainly come to nothing.</p><p class="poem">They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.11.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">even their altars will be like piles of rocks<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.11.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">on the furrows of a field.</p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">Further Indictment of Jacob’s Heirs</h3><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Jacob fled to the territory of Aram.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">Israel worked to earn a wife;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.12.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">he tended flocks for a wife.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.12.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and Israel was tended by a prophet.</p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Hosea.12.14" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.14.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">and repay him for his contempt.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Hosea.12.14.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p></blockquote><br /><section id="footnotes-Hosea.12" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Hosea.12.1.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.1">12:1</a></span> Or <span class="italic">grazes on</span>, or <span class="italic">tends</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.12.4.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.4">12:4</a></span> LXX, Syr; MT reads <span class="italic">us</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.12.8.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.8">12:8</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">iniquity which is sin</span></aside><aside id="fn.Hosea.12.9.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.9">12:9</a></span> LXX reads <span class="italic">God who brought you out of</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Hosea.12" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.1">12:1</a></span> Jr 22:22; Hs 4:19</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.1">12:1</a></span> Gn 41:6; Ezk 17:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.1.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.1">12:1</a></span> Hs 5:13; 7:11; 8:9</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.1.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.1">12:1</a></span> 2Kg 17:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.2">12:2</a></span> Hs 4:9; 7:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.3">12:3</a></span> Gn 25:26; 27:36</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.3">12:3</a></span> Gn 32:24–28</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.4">12:4</a></span> Gn 32:26</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.4.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.4">12:4</a></span> Gn 28:13–15; 35:10–15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.4.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.4">12:4</a></span> Gn 28:10–22; 35:1–14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.5">12:5</a></span> Ex 3:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.6">12:6</a></span> Hs 6:1–3; 10:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.6.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.6">12:6</a></span> Hs 6:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.6.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.6">12:6</a></span> Mc 7:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.7">12:7</a></span> Hs 7:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.7.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.7">12:7</a></span> Pr 11:1; Am 8:5; Mc 6:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.8">12:8</a></span> Ps 62:10; Hs 13:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.8.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.8">12:8</a></span> Hs 4:8; 14:1; Am 3:15; 6:4–6</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.9">12:9</a></span> Hs 11:1; 13:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.9.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.9">12:9</a></span> Lv 23:42</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.10">12:10</a></span> Jr 7:25</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.10.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.10">12:10</a></span> Ezk 17:2; 20:49</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.11.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.11">12:11</a></span> Hs 6:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.11.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.11">12:11</a></span> Hs 4:15; 9:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.11.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.11">12:11</a></span> Hs 8:11; 10:1–2</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.12">12:12</a></span> Gn 28:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.12.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.12">12:12</a></span> Gn 29:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.12.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.12">12:12</a></span> Gn 29:1–20</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.13">12:13</a></span> Ex 14:19–22; Is 63:11–14</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.14">12:14</a></span> 2Kg 17:7–18</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.14.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.14">12:14</a></span> Ezk 18:10–13</aside><aside id="xrf.Hosea.12.14.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Hosea.12.14">12:14</a></span> Dn 11:18; Mc 6:16</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Hosea.12" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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