Hosea 12 Ephraim is fed with ayre, and foloweth after the east winde: he is euer increasynge lyes and destruccyon. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oyle is caryed into Egypt.

Great⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Ephraim is fed with ayre, and foloweth after the east winde: he is euer increasynge lyes and destruccyon. They be confederate with the Assyrians, their oyle is caryed into Egypt. ² The Lorde hath a courte to holde wt Iuda, and wyll punyshe Iacob. After their awne wayes and accordynge to theyr awne inuencyons, shall he recompense them. ³ He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in hys strength he wrestled with God. ⁴ He strowe with the angell, and gatt the victorye: so that he prayde & desyred hym. He founde him at Bethell, and there he talketh with vs. ⁵ Yee, the Lorde God of Hoostes, euen the Lorde him selfe remembred him. ⁶ Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equite, & hope styll in thy God. ⁷ But thou art lyke the marchaunt that hath a false weyght in his hande, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcyon. ⁸ Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich. I haue good ynough: In all my worckes shall not one fawte be founde that I haue offended. ⁹ Yet am I the Lord thy God, euen as when I brought the out of the lande of Egypte, and sett the in thy tentes, and as in the hye feaste dayes. ¹⁰ I haue spoken thorowe the prophetes, & shewed diuerse visyons and declared my selfe by the ministracion of the prophetes. ¹¹ But at Gilaad is the abhominacyon, they are fallen to vanyte. At Gilgal they haue slayne oxen: as many heapes of stones as they had in theyr lande forowes, so many aulters haue they made. ¹² Iacob fled in to the lande of Siria, & Israell serued for a wife, & for a wife he kepte shepe. ¹³ By a prophete the Lorde brought them out of Egypt, and by a prophet he preserued them. ¹⁴ But Ephraim hath puoked him to displeasure thorowe his abhominacyons, therfore shall his bloude be poured vpon him selfe, and the Lorde hys God shall rewarde hym hys blasphemyes.