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.
saying, “Come let us return to the Lord, for he has torn us but he will heal us, he has injured us but he will bandage our wounds,
2 He revives us after two days, In the third day He raises us up, And we live before Him.
he will revive in a couple of days, on the third day he will raise us up again, to live in his presence.
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.”
Let us know, let us eagerly seek to know the Lord. His coming is as sure as the sunrise. He will come to us like the winter rain, as the spring rain that waters 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 can I make of you, Ephraim! What can I make of you, Judah! Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew which early goes 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.
That is why I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth. My judgment is like the light that goes forth,
6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
for it is love that I delight in and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God and not burnt offerings.
7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against Me.
But they after the manner of men have transgressed the covenant, there they have played me false.
8 Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with bloody footprints,
9 And as bands wait for a man, A company of priests murder—the way to Shechem, For they have done wickedness.
and as bandits lie in wait for a man, so a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem. How terrible is the evil they do!
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.
In Bethel I have seen a horrible thing. There Ephraim plays the prostitute, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed to you, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!”
Judah for you also a harvest is set. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
