Holman Christian Standard Bible

Hosea 12:6-12 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

6. But you must return to your God. Maintain love and justice, and always put your hope in God.

7. A merchant loves to extort with dishonest scales in his hands.

8. But Ephraim says:“How rich I have become; I made it all myself.In all my earnings,no one can find any crime in me that I can be punished for! ”

9. I have been Yahweh your Godever since the land of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again, as in the festival days.

10. I spoke through the prophets and granted many visions;I gave parables through the prophets.

11. Since Gilead is full of evil, they will certainly come to nothing.They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; even their altars will be like heaps of rocks on the furrows of a field.

12. Jacob fled to the land of Aram. Israel worked to earn a wife; he tended flocks for a wife.