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.
Come, and let us return unto Yahweh! for, he, hath torn, that he might heal us, —smitten, that he might bind us up.
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.
He will bring us to life, after two days, —on the third day, will he raise us up, that we may live before him.
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.
Then let us know—let us press on to know—Yahweh, Like the dawn, is his coming forth assured, —that he may come like a down-pour upon us, like the harvest-rain, [and] the seed-rain of the land.
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.
What can I do unto thee, O Ephraim? What can I do unto thee, O Judah? for, your lovingkindness, is like a morning cloud, yea, like the dew, early departing!
5 So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;
For this cause, have I hewn them in pieces by the prophets, I have slain them by the sayings of my mouth, —and, my justice, as a light goeth forth.
6 Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.
For, lovingkindness, I desired, and not sacrifice, —and the knowledge of God, more than ascending-offerings.
7 But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me.
But, they, like Adam, have transgressed a covenant, —There, have they dealt treacherously with me.
8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.
Gilead, is a city of workers of iniquity, —tracked with blood.
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.
And, like liers in wait for a man, in troops, is a band of priests, on the road, will they murder towards Shechem, —because, a shameful deed, they have done.
10 In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;
In the house of Israel, have I seen a horrible thing, —there, the unchastity of Ephraim, defiled is Israel.
11 And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself.
Judah too! a harvest is appointed for thee, —in that I will bring back the captivity of my people.
