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Hosea 6
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1Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.
1Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:
2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
3Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.
4O 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 early dew it goeth away.
5Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light .
5Therefore 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.
6For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt -offerings.
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9And thy strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;
10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11begin to gather grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.
11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.