Hosea 6

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

Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

2 He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise 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 Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.

4 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.

O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

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

Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes 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 do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder — the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

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 — defiled is Israel.

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

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

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