Hosea 12

Names of God Bible

² Yahweh 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 Elohim.
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.
⁵ Yahweh is the God of Armies.
    Yahweh is the name by which he is remembered.
⁶ Return to your Elohim.
    Be loyal and fair, and always wait with hope for your Elohim.

⁷ The Lord says, “The merchants use dishonest scales.
    They love to cheat people.
⁸ The people of Ephraim say, ‘We’re rich. We’ve made a fortune.
    With all this wealth, no one will find us guilty of any sin.’
⁹ I am Yahweh your Elohim.
    I brought you out of Egypt.
    I will make you live in tents again
    as you did during your appointed festivals.
¹⁰ I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions.
    I taught lessons through the prophets.”^[b]

¹¹ The people of Gilead are evil.
    They are worthless.
    They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal.
        But their altars will become like piles of rubble
            beside a plowed field.
¹² Jacob fled to the country of Syria.
    Israel worked to get a wife; he took care of sheep to pay for her.
¹³ Yahweh used a prophet to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt.
    He used a prophet to take care of them.

¹⁴ The people of Ephraim made Yahweh bitter.
    He will hold them guilty of murder.
        Adonay will pay them back for their insults.