Hosea 12:7-11

The Lord Refutes Israel’s False Claim of Innocence

12:7 The businessmen love to cheat;

they use dishonest scales.

12:8 Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich!

I have become wealthy!

In all that I have done to gain my wealth,

no one can accuse me of any offense that is actually sinful.”

12:9 “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt;

I will make you live in tents again as in the days of old.

12:10 I spoke to the prophets;

I myself revealed many visions;

I spoke in parables through the prophets.”

12:11 Is there idolatry in Gilead?

Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing!

Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?

Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!