The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: strength he had power with God:
HOS 12:4 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and
made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake
with us;
HOS 12:5 Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is his memorial.
HOS 12:6 Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment and
wait on thy God continually.
HOS 12:7 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he
loveth to oppress.
HOS 12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out
substance: in all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me that
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