Hosea 6

1 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.

In her tribulacioun thei schulen rise eerli to me. Come ye, and turne we ayen to the Lord;

2 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.

for he took, and schal heele vs; he schal smyte, and schal make vs hool.

3 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.

He schal quykene vs after twei daies, and in the thridde dai he schal reise vs, and we schulen lyue in his siyt. We schulen wite, and sue, that we knowe the Lord. His goyng out is maad redi at the morewtid, and he schal come as a reyn to vs, which is timeful and lateful to the erthe.

4 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.

Effraym, what schal Y do to thee? Juda, what schal Y do to thee? Youre merci is as a cloude of the morewtid, and as deew passynge forth eerli.

5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

For this thing Y hewide in profetis, Y killide hem in the wordis of my mouth;

6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

and thi domes schulen go out as liyt. For Y wolde merci, and not sacrifice, and Y wolde the kunnyng of God, more than brent sacrificis.

7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.

But thei as Adam braken the couenaunt; there thei trespassiden ayens me.

8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

Galaad the citee of hem that worchen idol, is supplauntid with blood; and

9 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.

as the chekis of men `that ben theues. Partener of prestis sleynge in the weie men goynge fro Sichem, for thei wrouyten greet trespasse.

10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;

In the hous of Israel Y siy an orible thing; there the fornicaciouns of Effraym.

11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.

Israel is defoulid; but also thou, Juda, sette heruest to thee, whanne Y schal turne the caitiftee of my puple.