New International Version

Hosea 12:3-8 New International Version (NIV)

3. In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel; as a man he struggled with God.

4. He struggled with the angel and overcame him; he wept and begged for his favor. He found him at Bethel and talked with him there—

5. the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is his name!

6. But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.

7. The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.

8. Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”