5
but the LORD is God of the hosts; the LORD
is his memorial.
6
Therefore be thou converted unto thy God; keep mercy and judgment, and in thy God wait continually.
7
He is a merchant who has the balances of deceit in his hand; he loves to oppress.
8
And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich, I have found riches for myself; no one shall find iniquity in me, nor sin in all my labours.
9
But I
am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet make thee to dwell in tents as in the days of the solemn feast.
10
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the hand of the prophets.
11
Is Gilead iniquity? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars
are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12
But Jacob fled into the land of Aram, and Israel served for
his wife, and for
his wife he was a pastor.
13
And by
a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by
a prophet he was preserved.
14
Ephraim provoked
God to anger with bitterness: therefore his blood shall be spilled upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord repay unto him.