Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
King James Bible
New International Version
A Reproof of Ephraim, Judah, Jacob
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is carried into Egypt.
Ephraim feeds on the wind;
he pursues the east wind all day
and multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a treaty with Assyria
and sends olive oil to Egypt.
he pursues the east wind all day
and multiplies lies and violence.
He makes a treaty with Assyria
and sends olive oil to Egypt.
The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel;
as a man he struggled with God.
as a man he struggled with God.
Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
He struggled with the angel and overcame him;
he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel
and talked with him there —
he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel
and talked with him there —
Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
the Lord God Almighty,
the Lord is his name!
the Lord is his name!
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
But you must return to your God;
maintain love and justice,
and wait for your God always.
maintain love and justice,
and wait for your God always.
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
The merchant uses dishonest scales
and loves to defraud.
and loves to defraud.
And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin.
Ephraim boasts,
“I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin.”
“I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin.”
And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast.
“I have been the Lord your God
ever since you came out of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the days of your appointed festivals.
ever since you came out of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the days of your appointed festivals.
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
I spoke to the prophets,
gave them many visions
and told parables through them.”
gave them many visions
and told parables through them.”
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
Is Gilead wicked?
Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?
Their altars will be like piles of stones
on a plowed field.
Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?
Their altars will be like piles of stones
on a plowed field.
And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
The Lord used a prophet to bring Israel up from Egypt,
by a prophet he cared for him.
by a prophet he cared for him.