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¹ Ephraim kepeth the ayre, and foloweth after the east wynde: he is euer increasinge lyes & destruction. They be confederate with the Assirians, their oyle is caried in to Egipte.² The LORDE hath a courte to holde with Iuda, and wil punysh Iacob: After their owne waies and acordinge to their owne inuencions, shal he recompence them.³ He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God.⁴ He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs.⁵ Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him:⁶ Then turne to thy God, kepe mercy and equyte, and hope still in thy God.

⁷ But the marchaunt hath a false weight in his honde, he hath a pleasure to occupie extorcion.⁸ Ephraim thinketh thus: Tush, I am rich, I haue good ynough: In all my workes shal not one fawte be founde, that I haue offended.⁹ Yet am I the LORDE thy God, eue as when I brought the out of the londe of Egipte, and set the in thy tentes, and as in the hye feast dayes.¹⁰ I haue spoke thorow the prophetes, and shewed dyuerse visions, and declared my self by the ministracion of ye prophetes.¹¹ But at Galaad is the abhominacion, they are fallen to vanyte. At Galgal they haue slayne oxen: and as many heapes of stones as they had in their lode forowes, so many aulters haue they made.¹² Iacob fled into the londe of Siria, and Israel serued for a wife, and for a wife he kepte shepe.¹³ By a prophet the LORDE brought them out of Egipte, and by a prophet he preserued the.¹⁴ But Ephraim hath prouoked him to displeasure thorow his abhominacions: therfore shal his bloude be poured vpon him self, and the LORDE his God shal rewarde him his blasphemies.