Hosea 6

1 “Come, and we turn back to YHWH, For He has torn, and He heals us, He strikes, and He binds us up.

In their tribulation, they will arise early to me. Come, let us return to the Lord.

2 He revives us after two days, In the third day He raises us up, And we live before Him.

For he has seized us, and he will heal us. He will strike, and he will cure us.

3 And we know—we pursue to know YHWH, His going forth is prepared as the dawn, And He comes in as a shower to us, As spring rain [and] autumn rain to the earth.”

He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live in his sight. We will understand, and we will continue on, so that we may know the Lord. His landing place has been prepared like the first light of morning, and he will come to us like the early and the late rains of the land.

4 “What do I do to you, O Ephraim? What do I do to you, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early—going.

What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your mercy is like the morning mist, and like the dew passing away in the morning.

5 Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments go forth to the light.

Because of this, I have cut them with the prophets, I have slain them with the words of my mouth; and your opinions will depart like the light.

6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

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

7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against Me.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; in this, they have been dishonest with me.

8 Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

Gilead is a city that manufactures idols; it has been tripped up by family relations.

9 And as bands wait for a man, A company of priests murder—the way to Shechem, For they have done wickedness.

And, like those who rob with skillful words, they, by conspiring with the priests, bring a death sentence to travelers on a pilgrimage from Shechem; for they have been performing evil deeds.

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.

I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated.

11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed to you, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!”

But you, Judah, set a harvest for yourself, while I reverse the captivity of my people.