< Hosea 6 >

1 Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
to go: come! and to return: return to(wards) LORD for he/she/it to tear and to heal us to smite and to saddle/tie us
2 After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.
to live us from day in/on/with day [the] third to arise: raise us and to live to/for face: before his
3 So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
and to know to pursue to/for to know [obj] LORD like/as dawn to establish: establish exit his and to come (in): come like/as rain to/for us like/as spring rain to shoot land: soil
4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.
what? to make: do to/for you Ephraim what? to make: do to/for you Judah and kindness your like/as cloud morning and like/as dew to rise to go: went
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.
upon so to hew in/on/with prophet to kill them in/on/with word lip my and justice: judgement your light to come out: come
6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
for kindness to delight in and not sacrifice and knowledge God from burnt offering
7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
and they(masc.) like/as Adam to pass: trespass covenant there to act treacherously in/on/with me
8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.
Gilead town to work evil: wickedness insidious from blood
9 Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
and like/as to wait man band fellow priest way: road to murder Shechem [to] for wickedness to make
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.
in/on/with house: household Israel to see: see (horror *Q(k)*) there fornication to/for Ephraim to defile Israel
11 Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people from captivity.
also Judah to set: appoint harvest to/for you in/on/with to return: rescue I captivity people my

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