第12章
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* 第 12 章
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* 何12:1 以法莲吃风，且追赶东风，时常增添虚谎和强暴，与亚述立约，把油送到埃及。
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*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.
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* 何12:2 耶和华与犹大争辩，必照雅各所行的惩罚他，按他所做的报应他。
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*The LORD hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his doings will he recompense him.
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* 何12:3 他在腹中抓住哥哥的脚跟，壮年的时候与上帝较力，
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*He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God:
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* 何12:4 与天使较力，并且得胜，哭泣恳求，在伯特利遇见耶和华。耶和华万军之上帝在那里晓谕我们以色列人；耶和华是他可记念的名。
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*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;
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* 何12:5 －
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*Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
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* 何12:6 所以你当归向你的上帝，谨守仁爱、公平，常常等候你的上帝。
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*Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and wait on thy God continually.
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* 其他的判词
* 何12:7 以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。
* 何12:7 以法莲是商人，手里有诡诈的天平，爱行欺骗。
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*He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
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* 何12:8 以法莲说：我果然成了富足，得了财宝；我所劳碌得来的，人必不见有什么不义，可算为罪的。
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*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.
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* 何12:9 自从你出埃及地以来，我就是耶和华你的上帝；我必使你再住帐棚，如在大会的日子一样。
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*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.
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* 何12:10 我已晓谕众先知，并且加增默示，藉先知设立比喻。
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*I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
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* 何12:11 基列人没有罪孽吗？他们全然是虚假的。人在吉甲献牛犊为祭，他们的祭坛好像田间犁沟中的乱堆。
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*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.
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* 何12:12 从前雅各逃到亚兰地，以色列为得妻服事人，为得妻与人放羊。
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*And Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
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* 何12:13 耶和华藉先知领以色列从埃及上来；以色列也藉先知而得保存。
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*And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.
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* 何12:14 以法莲大大惹动主怒，所以他流血的罪必归在他身上。主必将那因以法莲所受的羞辱归还他。
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*Ephraim provoked him to anger most bitterly: therefore shall he leave his blood upon him, and his reproach shall his LORD return unto him.