Hosea 5:15-6:6

Authorized (King James) Version

¹⁵ I will go and return to my place,
till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face:
in their affliction they will seek me early.

6 Come, and let us return unto the Lord:
for he hath torn, and he will heal us;
he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
² After two days will he revive us:
in the third day he will raise us up,
and we shall live in his sight.
³ Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:
his going forth is prepared as the morning;
and he shall come unto us as the rain,
as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

⁴ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
for your goodness is as a morning cloud,
and as the early dew it goeth away.
⁵ Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets;
I have slain them by the words of my mouth:
and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.