Hosea 12

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Ephraim besieges me with lying, the House of Israel with duplicity. (But Judah stil is on God's side, heis faithful to the Holy One.)	1 Ephraim feedeth on the wind, and followeth the burning heat: all the day long he multiplied lies and desolation: and he hath made a covenant with the Assyrians, and carried oil into Egypt.
2 Ephraim feeds himself on wind, all day he chases the wind from the East, he heaps up cheating andviolence; they make a treaty with Assyria, at the same time sending oil to Egypt.	2 Therefore there is a judgment of the Lord with Juda, and a visitation for Jacob: he will render to him according to his ways, and according to his devices.
3 Yahweh has a case against Judah, he will punish Jacob as his conduct merits, he will repay him as hisdeeds deserve.	3 In the womb he supplanted his brother: and by his strength he had success with an angel.
4 In the very womb he overreached his brother, in maturity he wrestled against God.	4 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
5 He wrestled with the angel and beat him, he wept and pleaded with him. He met him at Bethel andthere God spoke to us-	5 Even the Lord the God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
6 yes, Yahweh, God Sabaoth, Yahweh is his title!	6 Therefore turn thou to thy God : keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.
7 So turn back with God's help, maintain faithful love and loyalty and always put your trust in your God.	7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
8 Merchants use fraudulent scales. To defraud is his delight.	8 And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.
9 'How rich I have become!' says Ephraim, 'I have made a fortune.' But of al his gains he wil keepnothing because of the sin of which he is guilty.	9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.
10 But I have been Yahweh your God since your days in Egypt and will make you live in tents again asin the days of Meeting.	10 And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
11 I will speak through prophets, I will give vision after vision and through the ministry of prophets wilspeak in parables.	11 If Galaad be an idol, then in vain were they in Galgal offering sacrifices with bullocks: for their altars also are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12 Is Gilead a sink of iniquity? Yes, they are a worthless lot! At Gilgal they sacrifice to bulls, that is whytheir altars are like heaps of stones in a ploughed field.	12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
13 Jacob fled to the countryside of Aram, Israel slaved to win a wife, to win a wife he looked after sheep.	13 But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.
14 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet Israel was preserved.	14 Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.
15 Ephraim gave bitter provocation- Yahweh will bring his bloodshed down on him, his Lord wil repayhim for his insult.