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    "language": "en",
    "book": "hosea",
    "chapter": 12
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 12,
    "bookSlug": "hosea",
    "bookCode": "HOS",
    "refId": "",
    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
    "segments": [],
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "HOS-12:1",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.1",
        "text": "Ephraim feeds on wind,\nand chases the east wind.\nHe continually multiplies lies and desolation.\nThey make a covenant with Assyria,\nand oil is carried into Egypt."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "HOS-12:2",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.2",
        "text": "Yahweh also has a controversy with Judah,\nand will punish Jacob according to his ways;\naccording to his deeds he will repay him."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "HOS-12:3",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.3",
        "text": "In the womb he took his brother by the heel;\nand in his manhood he contended with God."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "HOS-12:4",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.4",
        "text": "Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed;\nhe wept, and made supplication to him.\nHe found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "HOS-12:5",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.5",
        "text": "even Yahweh, the God of Armies;\nYahweh is his name of renown!"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "HOS-12:6",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.6",
        "text": "Therefore turn to your God.\nKeep kindness and justice,\nand wait continually for your God."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "HOS-12:7",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.7",
        "text": "A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand.\nHe loves to defraud."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "HOS-12:8",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.8",
        "text": "Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich,\nI have found myself wealth.\nIn all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "HOS-12:9",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.9",
        "text": "“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt.\nI will yet again make you dwell in tents,\nas in the days of the solemn feast."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "HOS-12:10",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.10",
        "text": "I have also spoken to the prophets,\nand I have multiplied visions;\nand by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "HOS-12:11",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.11",
        "text": "If Gilead is wicked,\nsurely they are worthless.\nIn Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.\nIndeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "HOS-12:12",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.12",
        "text": "Jacob fled into the country of Aram,\nand Israel served to get a wife,\nand for a wife he tended flocks and herds."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "HOS-12:13",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.13",
        "text": "By a prophet Yahweh brought Israel up out of Egypt,\nand by a prophet he was preserved."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "HOS-12:14",
        "verseRef": "HOS.12.14",
        "text": "Ephraim has bitterly provoked anger.\nTherefore his blood will be left on him,\nand his Lord will repay his contempt."
      }
    ]
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