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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Hosea 12 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/hosea/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/hosea/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > Hosea 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../hosea/11.htm" title="Hosea 11">◄</a> Hosea 12 <a href="../hosea/13.htm" title="Hosea 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/hosea/12-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">A Reproof of Ephraim, Judah, and Jacob<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And a contention to Jehovah with Judah, and to review Jacob according to his ways; he will turn back to him according to his doings.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In the belly he circumvented his brother, and by his strength he was a leader with God.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And he will be a leader to the messenger, and he will prevail: he wept, and he will make supplication to him: in the house of God he will find him, and there he will speak with him.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jehovah God of armies, Jehovah his remembrance.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And thou, in thy God thou shalt turn back: watch mercy and judgment, and wait always for thy God.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Canaan in his hand, the balances of deceit: he loved to oppress.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And Ephraim will say, Surely I became rich, I found to me wealth: all my labors shall not be found to me iniquity which was sin.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will even cause thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the appointment.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I spake by the prophets, and I multiplied the vision, and by the hand of the prophets I will use similitudes.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If Gilead nothing? Surely they were vanity: in Gilgal they sacrificed oxen; also their altars as heaps upon the furrows of the field.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Jacob will flee to the field of Aram, and Israel will serve for a wife, and for a wife he watched.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And by a prophet Jehovah brought up Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was <RF q=*><font color=#808080><i>The hard copy spelling records the following as: </i></font><b> perserved</b><Rf>preserved.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/hosea/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Ephraim provoked bitternesses, and bloods shall fly swiftly upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord turn back to him.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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