111An east wind in Israel is usually hot and dry.
12: 2 Jehovah hath also a controversy with Judah, and will 112punish Jacob according to his ways; and according to his doings will he recompense him.
112Hb. visit upon Jacob according to his ways;
12: 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his 113manhood he 114had power with God:
113Or, strength
114Or, strove with God:
12: 4 yes, he had power over an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,
12: 5 115even Jehovah, the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial name.
115Or, for Jehovah is the God of hosts;
12: 6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep kindness and justice, and wait for thy God continually.
12: 7 116He is 117a trafficker, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to 118oppress.
116Or, As for Canaan, the balances of deceit are
117Or, a Canaanite, Hb. Canaan,
118Or, defraud.
12: 8 And Ephraim said, Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth: in all my labors they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.
12: 9 But I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; I will yet again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
12: 10 I have also spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and 119by the ministry of the prophets have I used similitudes.
119Hb. by the hand of the prophets
12: 11 Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
12: 12 And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
12: 13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he 120preserved.
120Or, kept.
12: 14 Ephraim hath provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall his blood be left upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.
