Hosea 6

1 "Come, and let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.

'Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

2 After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

3 Let us acknowledge the LORD. Let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, The LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth."

And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

4 "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

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

5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.

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

6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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

7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

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

8 Gilead is a city of evildoers; it is stained with blood.

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

9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

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

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled.

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

11 "For you also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people.

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