1	Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
			2	The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
			3	He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
			4	Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him Bethel, and there he spake with us;
			5	Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD his memorial.
			6	Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
			7	# He is a merchant, the balances of deceit in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
			8	And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that sin.
			9	And I the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
			10	I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
			11	Is there iniquity Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
			12	And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept .
			13	And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
			14	Ephraim provoked to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him.