A merchant loves to extort(A)
with dishonest scales in his hands.(B)
But Ephraim thinks,
“How rich I have become;(C)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any iniquity in me(D)
that I can be punished for!” [a]

Judgment on Apostate Israel

I have been the Lord your God
ever since[b] the land of Egypt.(E)
I will make you live in tents again,(F)
as in the festival days.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:8 Lit iniquity which is sin
  2. 12:9 LXX reads God who brought you out of

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