Osee 12:12

12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

Osee 12:12 In-Context

10 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.

11 If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.

12 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.

13 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserve.

14 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.