New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Ephraim is a shepherd whose flock is but note wind,
a hunter chasing the east wind all day; note
he makes a treaty with Assyria
and carries tribute of oil to Egypt.
2 The Lord has a charge to bring against Judah
and is resolved to punish Jacob for his conduct;
he will requite him for his misdeeds.
3 Even in the womb Jacob overreached his brother,
and in manhood he strove with God.
4 The divine angel stood firm and held his own; note
Jacob wept and begged favour for himself.
Then God met him at Bethel
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God's judgement on Israel
and there spoke with him. note
5 The Lord the God of Hosts, the Lord is his name.
6 Turn back all of you by God's help;
practise loyalty and justice
and wait always upon your God.
7 False scales are in merchants' hands,
and they love to cheat;
8 so Ephraim says,
‘Surely I have become a rich man, I have made my fortune’;
but all his note gains will not pay
for the guilt note of his sins.
9 Yet I have been the Lord your God since your days in Egypt;
I will make you live in tents yet again, as in the old days.
10 I spoke to the prophets,
it was I who gave vision after vision;
I spoke through the prophets in parables.
11 Was there idolatry in Gilead?
Yes: they were worthless
and sacrificed to bull-gods in Gilgal;
their altars were common as heaps of stones beside a ploughed field.
12 Jacob fled to the land of Aram;
Israel did service to win a wife,
to win a wife he tended sheep.
13 By a prophet the Lord brought up Israel out of Egypt
and by a prophet he was tended.
14 Ephraim has given bitter provocation;
therefore his Lord will make him answerable
for his own death
and bring down upon his own head the blame
for all that he has done.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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