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What does Hosea 12:6 mean?
"Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God."
— Hosea 12:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”
“But I am Yahweh your God from the land of Egypt. I will yet again make you dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.
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