Husha (Hosea) — 12

1 The people of Yashar'AL feed on the wind; they chase after the east wind all day long, they pile up lies and violence; they are making an alliance with Assyria while sending olive oil to buy support from Mitzraym.

2 Now 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is bringing charges against Yahudah, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is about to punish Ya'aqub for all his deceitful ways, and pay him back for all he has done.

3 Even in the womb, Ya'aqub struggled with his brother; when he became a man, he even fought with 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.

4 Yes, Ya'aqub wrestled with the Malak of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH and won, Ya'aqub wept and pleaded for a Barakah from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH. There at Bathal he met his 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH face to face, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar to him

5 For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH the 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH of Shamaym’s Armies, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is His Name!

6 So now, come back to your  𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, Act with love and justice, and always depend on Him.

7 But no, the people are like crafty merchants selling from dishonest scales, they love to cheat.

8 Yashar'AL boasts, “I am rich! I have made a fortune all by myself! No one has caught me cheating! My record is spotless!”

9 “But I Am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH your  𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH, who rescued you from slavery in Mitzraym, and I will make you live in tents again, as you do each year at the Festival of Shelters.

10 I sent my Nabyms to warn you with many visions and parables.”

11 But the people of Gilaad are worthless    because of their idol worship, and in Gilgal, too, they sacrifice bulls; their altars are lined up like the heaps of stone along the edges of a plowed field.

12 Ya'aqub fled to the land of Aram, and there he earned a wife by tending sheep.

13 Then by a Nabym 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH  brought Ya'aqub’s descendants out of Mitzraym; and by that Nabym they were protected.

14 But the people of Yashar'AL have bitterly provoked 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, so their 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH will now sentence them to death in payment for their sins.