Hosea 12:12-14

New Century Version

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.
¹⁴ But the Israelites made the Lord angry when they killed other people,
    and they deserve to die for their crimes.
The Lord will make them pay
    for the disgraceful things they have done.