12:12. Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and was a keeper for a wife.
12:13. But the Lord by a prophet brought Israel out of Egypt: and he was preserved by a prophet.
12:14. Ephraim hath provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood shall come upon him, and his Lord will render his reproach unto him.
Osee Chapter 13
The judgments of God upon Israel for their sins. Christ shall one day redeem them.
13:1. When Ephraim spoke, a horror seized Israel: and he sinned in Baal, and died.
13:2. And now they have sinned more and more: and they have made to themselves a molten thing of their silver as the likeness of idols: the whole is the work of craftsmen: to these that say: Sacrifice men, ye that adore calves.
13:3. Therefore they shall be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the dust that is driven with a whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.
13:4. But I am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt: and thou shalt know no God but me, and there is no saviour beside me.
13:5. I knew thee in the desert, in the land of the wilderness.