- 12:1 Ephraim feeds on wind And follows the east wind continually; He multiplies lies and violence. They make a covenant with Assyria, And oil is carried into Egypt.
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以法莲吃风，终日追赶东风；他增添虚谎和强暴；与亚述立约，把油送到埃及。
- 12:2 Jehovah has also a controversy with Judah And will punish Jacob according to his ways; According to his doings He will recompense him.
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耶和华又与犹大争辩，必照雅各所行的惩罚他，按他所作的报应他。
- 12:3 In the womb he grasped his brother by the heel, And in his full strength he contended with God.
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他在母腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟，壮年的时候与神较力。
- 12:4 Indeed he contended with the Angel and prevailed; He wept and made supplication to Him. At Bethel he found Him; And there He spoke with us,
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他与天使较力并且得胜；他哭泣恳求，在伯特利遇见耶和华；祂在那里与我们说话，
- 12:5 Even Jehovah the God of hosts; Jehovah is His memorial.
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祂是耶和华万军之神；耶和华是祂可记念的名。
- 12:6 And you, return there to your God; Keep lovingkindness and justice, And wait on your God continually.
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你当归向你的神，谨守慈爱、公平，常常等候你的神。
- 12:7 He is a merchant; In his hand are balances of deceit; He loves to extort.
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以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，喜爱欺诈。
- 12:8 And Ephraim said, I have surely become rich; I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors They will find with me No iniquity, which would be sin.
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以法莲说，我果然成了富足，为自己得了财富；我一切劳碌得来的，人必不见有什么不义，可算为罪的。
- 12:9 But I have been Jehovah your God Since the land of Egypt; Yet again I will cause you to dwell in tents As in the days of the appointed feast.
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自从在埃及地以来，我就是耶和华你的神；我必使你再住帐棚，如在所定节期的日子一样。
- 12:10 I have also spoken unto the prophets: And I have multiplied vision, And through the prophets I have used similitudes.
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我已晓谕众申言者，并且加增异象，藉申言者使用比喻。
- 12:11 Is Gilead iniquity? They are altogether vanity. In Gilgal they sacrifice oxen; Indeed their altars are like heaps In the furrows of a field.
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基列人有罪孽么？他们全然是虚假的。他们在吉甲献牛为祭，他们的祭坛好像田间犁沟中的乱堆。
- 12:12 And Jacob fled into the country of Aram; And Israel served for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.
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从前雅各逃到亚兰地，以色列为得妻子服事人，为得妻子替人放羊。
- 12:13 And by a prophet Jehovah brought Israel up from Egypt, And by a prophet he was kept.
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耶和华藉申言者领以色列从埃及上来，以色列也藉申言者而得保存。
- 12:14 Ephraim provoked Him to bitter anger; Therefore his Lord will leave his bloodshed upon him And will recompense him with his own reproach.
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以法莲大大惹动主怒，所以他的主必使他流血的罪归在他身上，必将他自己的羞辱还报他。