Osee 6

1 In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up.

Come, and let us return unto YHWH: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

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

3 let 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.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know YHWH: 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 What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes 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 early dew it goeth away.

5 Therefore 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.

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 will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of Elohim more than burnt offerings.

7 But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

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

8 there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

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

9 And your 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.

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 horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 begin together grapes for yourself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

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