Hosea · Brenton's English Septuagint
Hosea 12 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 Ephraim has compassed me with falsehood, and the house of Israel and Juda with ungodliness: [but] now God knows them, and they shall be called God's holy people.
1 Ephraim feeds on wind, and chases the east wind. He continually multiplies lies and desolation. They make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried into Egypt.
2 But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day: he has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.
2 Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his deeds he will repay him.
3 And the Lord [has] a controversy with Juda, in order to punish Jacob: according to his ways and according to his practices will he recompense him.
3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he contended with God.
4 He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power 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 And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies. Yahweh is his name of renown!
6 But the Lord God Almighty shall be his memorial.
6 Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
7 Thou therefore shalt return to thy God: keep thou mercy and judgment, and draw nigh to thy God continually.
7 A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
8 [As for] Chanaan, in his hand is a balance of unrighteousness: he has loved to tyrannise.
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.”
9 And Ephraim said, Nevertheless I am rich, I have found refreshment to myself. None of his labours shall be found [available] to him, by reason of the sins which he has committed.
9 “But I am Yahweh 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 But I the Lord thy God brought thee up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the 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.
11 And I will speak to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and by the means of the prophets I was represented.
11 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field.
12 If Galaad exists not, then the chiefs in Galaad when they sacrificed were false, and their altars were as heaps on the ground of the field.
12 Jacob fled into the country of Aram. Israel served to get a wife. For a wife he tended flocks and herds.
13 And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
13 By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
14 And the Lord brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by a prophet, and by a prophet was he preserved.
14 Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger. Therefore his blood will be left on him, and his Lord will repay his contempt.
15 Ephraim was angry and excited, therefore his blood shall be poured out upon him, and the Lord shall recompense to him his reproach.
15 Not in this translation
Cross references (14)
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- 1 Hosea 11:12; Hosea 8:7; Hosea 5:13; Jeremiah 22:22; Ezekiel 17:10
- 2 Micah 6:2; Isaiah 10:6; Hosea 4:1; Jeremiah 25:31; Isaiah 8:7–8
- 3 Genesis 25:26; Romans 9:11; James 5:16–18; Genesis 32:24–28
- 4 Genesis 35:15; 1 Thessalonians 4:17; Malachi 3:1; Hebrews 6:13–18; Genesis 48:15
- 5 Exodus 3:15; Psalm 135:13; Isaiah 42:8; Genesis 28:16; Genesis 32:30
- 6 Micah 6:8; Micah 7:7; Hosea 14:1; Lamentations 3:25–26; Hosea 6:1–3
- 7 Micah 6:10–11; Proverbs 11:1; Amos 8:5–6; Leviticus 19:35–36; Micah 3:1–3
- 8 Revelation 3:17; Psalm 62:10; Deuteronomy 8:17; Proverbs 30:20; Isaiah 10:13–14
- 9 Hosea 13:4; Leviticus 23:40–43; 2 Samuel 7:2; Nehemiah 8:15–17; Zechariah 14:16–19
- 10 2 Kings 17:13; Ezekiel 20:49; Jeremiah 7:25; Joel 2:28; Jeremiah 19:1
- 11 Hosea 4:15; Hosea 6:8; Hosea 8:11; Hosea 9:15; Hosea 10:1
- 12 Genesis 29:18–28; Genesis 31:41; Genesis 28:1–22; Genesis 27:43; Deuteronomy 26:5
- 13 Acts 3:22–23; Psalm 77:20; Exodus 12:50–51; Acts 7:35–37; Isaiah 63:11–14
- 14 Ezekiel 18:13; Daniel 11:18; 2 Kings 17:7–18; Deuteronomy 28:37; Hosea 7:16
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