호세아 12장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte.
- 2 The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them.
- 3 He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God.
- 4 He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs.
- 5 Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him:
- 6 Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God.
- 7 But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion.
- 8 Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I haue good ynough: In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde, that I haue offended.
- 9 Yet am I the LORDE thy God, eue as when I brought the out of the londe of Egipte, and set the in thy tentes, and as in the hye feast dayes.
- 10 I haue spoke thorow the prophetes, and shewed dyuerse visions, and declared my self by the ministracion of ye prophetes.
- 11 But at Galaad is the abhominacion, they are fallen to vanyte. At Galgal they haue slayne oxen: and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lode forowes, so many aulters haue they made.
- 12 Iacob fled into the londe of Siria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kepte shepe.
- 13 By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte, and by a prophet he preserued the.
- 14 But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure thorow his abhominacions: therfore shal his bloude be poured vpon him self, and the LORDE his God shal rewarde him his blasphemies.