WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.180 Chapter 12. 00:02.160 --> 00:05.700 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind. 00:06.220 --> 00:10.880 He daily increaseth lies and desolation, and they do make a covenant with the 00:10.880 --> 00:13.040 Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt. 00:13.860 --> 00:18.220 The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to 00:18.220 --> 00:18.880 his ways. 00:19.240 --> 00:21.520 According to his doings will he recompense him. 00:22.100 --> 00:25.860 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power 00:25.860 --> 00:26.480 with God. 00:26.480 --> 00:29.300 He said, Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed. 00:29.740 --> 00:31.920 He wept, and made supplication unto him. 00:32.400 --> 00:34.880 He found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us. 00:35.720 --> 00:39.440 Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, is his memorial. 00:40.260 --> 00:41.740 Therefore turn thou to thy God. 00:42.340 --> 00:45.160 Keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually. 00:46.080 --> 00:47.020 He is a merchant. 00:47.840 --> 00:50.260 The balances of deceit are in his hand. 00:51.120 --> 00:52.320 He loveth to oppress. 00:52.820 --> 00:57.600 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance. 00:57.900 --> 01:01.440 In all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin. 01:02.320 --> 01:07.100 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell 01:07.100 --> 01:10.400 in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. 01:10.980 --> 01:14.840 I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions and used 01:14.840 --> 01:17.360 similitudes by the ministry of the prophets. 01:18.560 --> 01:19.740 Is there iniquity in Gilead? 01:20.480 --> 01:21.520 Surely they are vanity. 01:21.520 --> 01:24.080 They sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal. 01:24.460 --> 01:27.700 Yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields. 01:28.540 --> 01:33.320 And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a 01:33.320 --> 01:34.380 wife he kept sheep. 01:34.960 --> 01:39.020 And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he 01:39.020 --> 01:39.520 preserved. 01:40.580 --> 01:42.500 Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly. 01:42.800 --> 01:46.560 Therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord 01:46.560 --> 01:47.740 return unto him.