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.
13. The Lord brought Israel from Egypt by a prophet, and Israel was tended by a prophet.
14. Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt on him and repay him for his contempt.