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.

Come, and let vs returne to the Lord: for he hath spoyled, and he will heale vs: he hath wounded vs, and he will binde vs vp.

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 dayes will he reuiue vs, and in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.

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.

Then shall we haue knowledge, and indeuour our selues to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come vnto vs as the raine, and as the latter raine vnto 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.

O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, how shall I intreate thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloude, and as the morning dewe it goeth 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 haue I cut downe by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements were as the light that goeth forth.

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

For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more then burnt offrings.

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

But they like men haue transgressed the couenant: there haue they trespassed against me.

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

Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.

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 as the eues waite for a man, so the companie of Priestes murder in the way by consent: for they worke mischiefe.

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 haue seene vileny in the house of Israel: there is ye whoredome of Ephraim: Israel is defiled.

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

Yea, Iudah hath set a plant for thee, whiles I woulde returne ye captiuitie of my people.