7So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
8As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
9And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
10But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.
11My word came to the ears of the prophets and I gave them visions in great number, and by the mouths of the prophets I made use of comparisons.
12In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
13And Jacob went in flight into the field of Aram, and Israel became a servant for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
