OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 5

Hosea 12:5

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even the LORD, the God of Armies.

The LORD is his name of renown!

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Hosea 12:2–8

2

The LORD also has a controversy with Judah,

and will punish Jacob according to his ways;

according to his deeds he will repay him.

3

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,

and in his manhood he contended with God.

4

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;

he wept, and made supplication to him.

He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us—

5
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even the LORD, the God of Armies.

The LORD is his name of renown!

6

Therefore turn to your God.

Keep kindness and justice,

and wait continually for your God.

7

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.

He loves to defraud.

8

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich.

I have found myself wealth.

In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

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