10 I spoke to the prophets;I myself revealed many visions;I spoke in parables through the prophets.”
11 Is there idolatry in Gilead?Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing!Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!
12 Jacob fled to the country of Aram,then Israel worked to acquire a wife;he tended sheep to pay for her.
13 The Lord brought Israel out of Egypt by a prophet,and due to a prophet Israel was preserved alive.
14 But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger;so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed,his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.