Hosea 6
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Hosea 6
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Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. | Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. |
After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. | After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him. |
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. | And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth. |
O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away. | O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away. |
So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth; | Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as] the light that goeth forth. |
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings. | For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. |
But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me. | But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood. | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood. |
And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design. | And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness. |
In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean; | In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is [found] in Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself. | Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee, when I bring back the captivity of my people. |