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.

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

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 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.

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 I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments go forth to 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 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 burnt offerings.

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

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

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

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted 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 as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

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

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

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

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