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Hosea 6

1.Come, 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.
2.After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3.Then 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.
4.O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness6-1 is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5.Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and6-2 thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6.For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7.But they like men6-3 have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8.Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted6-4 with blood.
9.And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by6-5 consent: for they commit lewdness6-6.
10.I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11.Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

Notes

6-1.
goodness or, mercy, or, kindness
6-2.
and... or, that thy judgments might be, etc
6-3.
men or, Adam
6-4.
polluted or, cunning for
6-5.
by... Heb. with one shoulder, or, to Shechem
6-6.
lewdness or, enormity