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            <div class="label">12</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="fr">12:1a </span><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">Verses 12:1-14 are numbered 12:2-15 in Hebrew text.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">The people of Israel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Ephraim, </span><span class="ft">referring to the northern kingdom of Israel; also in 12:8, 14.</span></span></span><span class="content"> feed on the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">they chase after the east wind all day long.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">They pile up lies and violence;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">they are making an alliance with Assyria</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">while sending olive oil to buy support from Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="HOS.12.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is bringing charges against Judah.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">He is about to punish Jacob</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:2 </span><span class="fqa">Jacob </span><span class="ft">sounds like the Hebrew word for &#8220;deceiver.&#8221;</span></span></span><span class="content"> for all his deceitful ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">and pay him back for all he has done.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="HOS.12.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Even in the womb,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">Jacob struggled with his brother;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">when he became a man,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">he even fought with God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="HOS.12.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">There at Bethel he met God face to face,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">and God spoke to him</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:4 </span><span class="ft">As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads </span><span class="fqa">to us.</span></span></span><span class="content">&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="HOS.12.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God of Heaven&#8217;s Armies,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is his name!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="HOS.12.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">So now, come back to your God.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">Act with love and justice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">and always depend on him.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="HOS.12.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">But no, the people are like crafty merchants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="content">selling from dishonest scales&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="content">they love to cheat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="HOS.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Israel boasts, &#8220;I am rich!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">I&#8217;ve made a fortune all by myself!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">No one has caught me cheating!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">My record is spotless!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="HOS.12.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;But I am the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">who rescued you from slavery in Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">And I will make you live in tents again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">as you do each year at the Festival of Shelters.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:9 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">as in the days of your appointed feast.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="HOS.12.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">I sent my prophets to warn you</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="content">with many visions and parables.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="HOS.12.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">But the people of Gilead are worthless</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">because of their idol worship.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">along the edges of a plowed field.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="HOS.12.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Jacob fled to the land of Aram,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="content">and there he</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:12 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Israel. </span><span class="ft">See note on 10:11b.</span></span></span><span class="content"> earned a wife by tending sheep.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="HOS.12.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then by a prophet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> brought Jacob&#8217;s descendants</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:13 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">brought Israel. </span><span class="ft">See note on 10:11b.</span></span></span><span class="content"> out of Egypt;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">and by that prophet</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">they were protected.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="HOS.12.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">But the people of Israel</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="content">have bitterly provoked the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="content">so their Lord will now sentence them to death</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="HOS.12.14"><span class="content">in payment for their sins.</span></span></div>
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 Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

The people of Israel feed on the wind;
they chase after the east wind all day long.
They pile up lies and violence;
they are making an alliance with Assyria
while sending olive oil to buy support from Egypt.

Now the LORD is bringing charges against Judah.
He is about to punish Jacob for all his deceitful ways,
and pay him back for all he has done.
Even in the womb,
Jacob struggled with his brother;
when he became a man,
he even fought with God.
Yes, he wrestled with the angel and won.
He wept and pleaded for a blessing from him.
There at Bethel he met God face to face,
and God spoke to him—
the LORD God of Heaven’s Armies,
the LORD is his name!
So now, come back to your God.
Act with love and justice,
and always depend on him.

But no, the people are like crafty merchants
selling from dishonest scales—
they love to cheat.
Israel boasts, “I am rich!
I’ve made a fortune all by myself!
No one has caught me cheating!
My record is spotless!”

“But I am the LORD your God,
who rescued you from slavery in Egypt.
And I will make you live in tents again,
as you do each year at the Festival of Shelters.
I sent my prophets to warn you
with many visions and parables.”

But the people of Gilead are worthless
because of their idol worship.
And in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls;
their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone
along the edges of a plowed field.
Jacob fled to the land of Aram,
and there he earned a wife by tending sheep.
Then by a prophet
the LORD brought Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt;
and by that prophet
they were protected.
But the people of Israel
have bitterly provoked the LORD,
so their Lord will now sentence them to death
in payment for their sins.

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सुन्नुहोस् Hosea 12