7 “A cunning 4Canaanite!

jDeceitful scales are in his hand;

He loves to oppress.

8 And Ephraim said,

k‘Surely I have become rich,

I have found wealth for myself;

In all my labors

They shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’

9 “But I am the Lord your God,

Ever since the land of Egypt;

lI will again make you dwell in tents,

As in the days of the appointed feast.

10 mI have also spoken by the prophets,

And have multiplied visions;

I have given 5symbols 6through the witness of the prophets.”

11 Though nGilead has idols—

Surely they are 7vanity—

Though they sacrifice bulls in oGilgal,

Indeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field.

12 Jacob pfled to the country of Syria;

qIsrael served for a spouse,

And for a wife he tended sheep.

13 rBy a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt,

And by a prophet he was preserved.

14 Ephraim sprovoked Him to anger most bitterly;

Therefore his Lord will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him,

tAnd return his reproach upon him.