ECB(i)
1 Ephrayim grazes on wind and pursues the easterly; every day he abounds lies and ravages: and they cut a covenant with the Ashshuri and bear oil to Misrayim.
2 And Yah Veh has a controversy with Yah Hudah and visits on Yaaqov according to his ways - according to his exploits he returns to him.
3 He tripped his brother by the heel in the belly; and by his strength he prevailed with Elohim:
4 Yes, he dominated over the angel and prevailed by weeping and was granted charism: he found him in Beth El and there he worded with us;
5 even Yah Veh Elohim Sabaoth; Yah Veh is his memorial.
6 And you, return to your Elohim; guard mercy and judgment and await your Elohim continually.
7 Kenaan - the balances of deceit are in his hand; he loves to oppress:
8 and Ephrayim says, Surely I enrich: I find my strength in all my labors they find no one perversity in me - sin.
9 And I - Yah Veh your Elohim from the land of Misrayim; and I return you to settle in tents as in the days of the seasons.
10 And I word by the prophets, and I abound visions, and by the hand of the prophets use comparisons.
11 Is there mischief in Gilad? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice oxen in Gilgal; yes, their sacrifice altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.
12 And Yaaqov flees into the field of Aram, and Yisra El serves for a woman: yes, for a woman he guards.
13 And by a prophet Yah Veh ascends Yisra El from Misrayim, - guarded by a prophet.
14 Ephrayim vexes himself with bitterness: and he abandons his blood on him, and Adonay returns his reproach to him.