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Hosea 12:4-8 American Standard Version (ASV)

4. yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,

5. even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial name.

6. Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.

7. He is a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

8. And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.