1 "以法莲吃风， 整天追赶东风， 增添虚谎和强暴。他们与亚述结盟， 又给埃及送油。"（本节在《马索拉抄本》为12:2） 2 耶和华与犹大争辩； 他必照雅各所行的惩罚他， 按他所作的报应他。 3 他在母腹中抓住他哥哥的脚跟， 壮年的时候又与 神角力。 4 他与天使角力， 并且得胜； 他哀哭， 向他求恩。他在伯特利遇见 神， 神在那里对他说话。 5 耶和华是万军的 神， 耶和华是他的名号。 6 所以你要靠着你的 神归回， 谨守忠信和公平， 常常等候你的 神。 7 以色列是个商人， 手里拿着诡诈的天平， 喜爱欺压别人。 8 以法莲说： "我成了富翁， 我为自己发了财； 在我所有的收益中， 人不能找出我有什么罪孽， 可算为罪恶的。" 9 "自从你出埃及地以来， 我就是耶和华你的 神； 我必使你再住在帐棚里， 像在节日的日子一样， 10 我曾对先知说话， 加添许多异象； 又借先知说比喻。 11 在基列仍有罪孽， 他们实在是没有价值的。他们在吉甲献牛犊为祭， 他们的祭坛好像田间犁沟中的石堆。" 12 从前雅各逃到亚兰地， 以色列为得妻子而作工， 为得妻子而替人放羊。 13 后来， 耶和华借着一位先知把以色列从埃及领上来， 也借着一位先知， 以色列得蒙看顾。 14 以法莲大大地惹了主的烈怒， 所以， 他的主把他流人血的罪归到他身上， 把他当受的羞辱归给他。
1 \11:12\The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...2 \12:1\Ephraim's food is the wind, and he goes after the east wind: deceit and destruction are increasing day by day; they make an agreement with Assyria, and take oil into Egypt.3 \12:2\The Lord has a cause against Judah, and will give punishment to Jacob for his ways; he will give him the reward of his acts.4 \12:3\In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;5 \12:4\He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;6 \12:5\Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.7 \12:6\So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.8 \12:7\As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.9 \12:8\And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.10 \12:9\But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.11 \12:10\My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.12 \12:11\In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.13 \12:12\And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.14 \12:13\And by a prophet the Lord made Israel come up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was kept safe.15 \12:14\I have been bitterly moved to wrath by Ephraim; so that his blood will be on him, and the Lord will make his shame come back on him.