“I have also spoken to the prophets,and I have multiplied visions;and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.”
Hosea 12:10 (WEB)
Context Reading
8Ephraim 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.” 9“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. 10I have also spoken to the prophets,and I have multiplied visions;and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables. 11If Gilead is wicked,surely they are worthless.In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls.Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field. 12Jacob fled into the country of Aram.Israel served to get a wife.For a wife he tended flocks and herds.