12. Since Gilead is full of iniquity, they are utterly worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls— even their altars will become heaps of rocks along the furrows of My field.”
13. Now Jacob fled to the field of Aram, when Israel served for a wife— yes, he kept watch for a wife.
14. So by a prophet Adonai brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept.
15. Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his bloodguilt will remain on him— his Lord will repay him for his contempt.