Hosea 6

1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:

Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.

After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain to the earth.

4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness [is] as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.

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.

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.

9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.

I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.

Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.