Hosea 12: The Lord wants Israel, although Israel doesn't want the Lord.

Israel is doing good in her own eyes, saying "I am rich", although far from the Lord.

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The businessmen engage in wholesale fraud.
    They love to rip people off!
Ephraim boasted, “Look, I’m rich!
    I’ve made it big!
And look how well I’ve covered my tracks:
    not a hint of fraud, not a sign of sin!”

The Lord wants Israel back to Him:
    
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“But not so fast! I’m God, your God!
    Your God from the days in Egypt!
I’m going to put you back to living in tents,
    as in the old days when you worshiped in the wilderness.
I speak through the prophets
    to give clear pictures of the way things are.
    Using prophets, I tell revealing stories.
I show Gilead rampant with religious scandal
    and Gilgal teeming with empty-headed religion.
I expose their worship centers as
    stinking piles of garbage in their gardens.”
    
In a similar way, the Lord is the One who came in my life. May the Lord destroy my false gods and make me live depending on Him as a poor lives in tents.