Hosea 12:7-9

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⁷A merchant loves to extort^(A)
with dishonest scales in his hands.^(B)
⁸But Ephraim thinks,
“How rich I have become;^(C)
I made it all myself.
In all my earnings,
no one can find any iniquity in me^(D)
that I can be punished for!” ^[a]

Judgment on Apostate Israel

⁹I have been the Lord your God
ever since^[b] the land of Egypt.^(E)
I will make you live in tents again,^(F)
as in the festival days.

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Footnotes

12:8 Lit iniquity which is sin
12:9 LXX reads God who brought you out of

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