Hosea 12:11-13

New Century Version

¹¹ The people of Gilead are evil,
    worth nothing.
Though people sacrifice bulls at Gilgal,
    their altars will become like piles of stone
    in a plowed field.
¹² Your ancestor Jacob fled to Northwest Mesopotamia
    where he worked to get a wife;
    he tended sheep to pay for her.
¹³ Later the Lord used a prophet
    to bring Jacob’s descendants out of Egypt;
he used a prophet
    to take care of the Israelites.