Hosea 6

1 Come so let us return to Yahweh for he he has torn to pieces and he will heal us he has struck and he will bind up us.

In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will strike, and bind us up.

2 He will restore to life us from two days on the day third he will raise up us and we may live before him.

After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

3 And let us know let us pursue to know Yahweh like [the] dawn [is] steadfast going forth his so he may come like the rain to us like [the] spring rain [which] it waters [the] land.

let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

4 What? will I do to you O Ephraim what? will I do to you O Judah and loyalty your [is] like a cloud of [the] morning and like dew rising early going.

What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

5 There-fore I will cut [them] in pieces by the prophets I will kill them by [the] words of mouth my and judgments your [is] light [which] it goes forth.

Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgement shall go forth as the light.

6 For covenant loyalty I desire and not sacrifice and [the] knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

7 And they like Adam they have transgressed [the] covenant there they dealt treacherously with me.

But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

8 Gilead [is] a town of doers of wickedness tracked from blood.

there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

9 And as wait for a person marauding bands an association of priests [the] way they murder Shechem towards for wickedness they have done.

And your strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

10 In [the] house of Israel I have seen (a horrible [thing] *Q(k)*) [is] there prostitution [belongs] to Ephraim it has made itself unclean Israel.

I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

11 Also O Judah he has appointed a harvest for you when turn back I [the] captivity of people my.

begin together grapes for yourself, when I turn the captivity of my people.