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# Hosea 12

Hosea 12 is chapter 12 of 14 in the Book of Hosea. Here are all 14 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Israel is reproved for sin. God's favours to them.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hosea 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Ephraim feeds on wind and follows burning heat; all day long he multiplies lies and desolation. And he has entered into a pact with the Assyrians, and he has carried oil into Egypt.
2. Therefore, the judgment of the Lord is with Judah and a visitation is upon Jacob. He will repay him according to his ways and according to his inventions.
3. In the womb, he supplanted his brother; for in his good fortune, he had been guided by an angel.
4. And he prevailed over an angel, for he had been strengthened. He wept and petitioned him. He found him in Bethel, and there he has spoken to us.
5. And the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
6. And so, you should convert to your God. Keep mercy and judgment, and have hope in your God always.
7. Canaan, in his hand is a deceitful balance, he has chosen false accusations.
8. And Ephraim has said, “Nevertheless, I have become rich; I have found an idol for myself. All of my labors will not reveal to me the iniquity that I have committed.”
9. And I, the Lord your God from the land of Egypt, nevertheless will cause you to dwell in tabernacles, just as during the days of the feast.
10. And I have spoken through the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used parables through the hands of the prophets.
11. If Gilead is an idol, then they have been sacrificing cattle in Gilgal to no purpose. For even their altars are like clutter on the soil of the field.
12. Jacob fled into the region of Syria, and Israel served like a wife, and was served by a wife.
13. Yet by a prophet the Lord led Israel out of Egypt, and he was served by a prophet.
14. Ephraim has provoked me to wrath with his bitterness, and his blood will overcome him, and his Lord will requite him for his shamefulness.

## Hosea 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ephraim pascit ventum, et sequitur æstum; tota die mendacium et vastitatem multiplicat: et fœdus cum Assyriis iniit, et oleum in Ægyptum ferebat.
2. Judicium ergo Domini cum Juda, et visitatio super Jacob: juxta vias ejus, et juxta adinventiones ejus reddet ei.
3. In utero supplantavit fratrem suum, et in fortitudine sua directus est cum angelo.
4. Et invaluit ad angelum, et confortatus est; flevit, et rogavit eum. In Bethel invenit eum, et ibi locutus est nobiscum.
5. Et Dominus Deus exercituum, Dominus memoriale ejus.
6. Et tu ad Deum tuum converteris; misericordiam et judicium custodi, et spera in Deo tuo semper.
7. Chanaan, in manu ejus statera dolosa, calumniam dilexit.
8. Et dixit Ephraim: Verumtamen dives effectus sum; inveni idolum mihi: omnes labores mei non invenient mihi iniquitatem quam peccavi.
9. Et ego Dominus Deus tuus ex terra Ægypti: adhuc sedere te faciam in tabernaculis, sicut in diebus festivitatis.
10. Et locutus sum super prophetas, et ego visionem multiplicavi, et in manu prophetarum assimilatus sum.
11. Si Galaad idolum, ergo frustra erant in Galgal bobus immolantes; nam et altaria eorum quasi acervi super sulcos agri.
12. Fugit Jacob in regionem Syriæ, et servivit Israël in uxorem, et in uxorem servavit.
13. In propheta autem eduxit Dominus Israël de Ægypto, et in propheta servatus est.
14. Ad iracundiam me provocavit Ephraim in amaritudinibus suis: et sanguis ejus super eum veniet, et opprobrium ejus restituet ei Dominus suus.

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 11: That is, if Galaad with all its idols and sacrifices be like a mere idol itself, being brought to nothing by Theglathphalasar: how vain is it to expect, that the idols worshipped in Galgal shall be of any service to the tribes that remain.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).