Holman Christian Standard Bible

Hosea 12:9-14 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

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.