Hosea 12:2-4

GOD’S WORD Translation

² The Lord brings charges against Judah and punishes Jacob
because of the way their people act.
He will pay them back for what they have done.
³ Their ancestor Jacob held on to his brother’s heel
while the two of them were in their mother’s womb.
When Jacob became a man, he struggled with God.
⁴ He struggled with the Messenger and won.
Jacob cried and pleaded with him.
Jacob found him at Bethel,
and he talked with him there.