Hosea 12 Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte. ² The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them. ³ He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God. ⁴ He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs. ⁵ Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him: ⁶ Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God. ⁷ But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion. ⁸ Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I haue good ynough: In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde, that I haue offended. ⁹ Yet am I the LORDE thy God, eue as when I brought the out of the londe of Egipte, and set the in thy tentes, and as in the hye feast dayes. ¹⁰ I haue spoke thorow the prophetes, and shewed dyuerse visions, and declared my self by the ministracion of ye prophetes. ¹¹ But at Galaad is the abhominacion, they are fallen to vanyte. At Galgal they haue slayne oxen: and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lode forowes, so many aulters haue they made. ¹² Iacob fled into the londe of Siria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kepte shepe. ¹³ By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte, and by a prophet he preserued the. ¹⁴ But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure thorow his abhominacions: therfore shal his bloude be poured vpon him self, and the LORDE his God shal rewarde him his blasphemies.