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Hosea 12:7
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
Hosea 12:7 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
Hosea 12:7 in other translations
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.
A merchant loves to defraud with dishonest scales in his hands.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
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In context
4 And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
5 Even the Lord God of hosts, the Lord is his memorial.
6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and hope in thy God always.
7 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.
8 And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.
9 And I that am the Lord thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet cause thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the feast.
10 And I have spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and I have used similitudes by the ministry of the prophets.
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