OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Hosea 12:7

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A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.

He loves to defraud.

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Hosea 12:4–10

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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—

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even the LORD, the God of Armies.

The LORD is his name of renown!

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Therefore turn to your God.

Keep kindness and justice,

and wait continually for your God.

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A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.

He loves to defraud.

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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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“But I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt.

I will yet again make you dwell in tents,

as in the days of the solemn feast.

10

I have also spoken to the prophets,

and I have multiplied visions;

and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.

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