Hosea 12:10-14

I have also spoken to the prophets, And I provided many visions, And through the prophets I spoke in parables.

Is there injustice in Gilead? Certainly they are worthless. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls, Yes, their altars are like stone heaps Beside the furrows of a field.

Now Jacob fled to the land of Aram, And Israel worked for a wife, And for a wife he kept sheep.

But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel up from Egypt, And by a prophet he was protected.

Ephraim has provoked God to bitter anger; So his Lord will leave his guilt for bloodshed on him And bring his disgrace back to him.