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 affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and 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 hath taken 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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the 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, there have they dealt treacherously against me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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