Hosea 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 Come and let us return to the LORD. For He has torn and He will heal us. He has wounded us and He will bind us up.

² After two days, He will revive us. On the third day, He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight.

³ Then we shall have knowledge and endeavor to know the LORD. His going forth is prepared as the morning. And He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter rain, to the earth.

⁴ “O Ephraim, what shall I do with you? O Judah, how shall I entreat you? For your goodness is as a morning cloud. And as the morning dew it goes away.

⁵ “Therefore, I have cut them down by the Prophets. I have killed them by the Words of My Mouth. And the judgments of you were as the light that goes forth.

⁶ “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than Burnt Offerings.

⁷ “But they, like men, have transgressed the Covenant. There they have trespassed against Me.

⁸ “Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, polluted with blood.

⁹ “And as the thieves wait for a man, the company of priests murder on the way by consent. For they work mischief.

¹⁰ “I have seen villainy in the House of Israel. The whoredom of Ephraim is there. Israel is defiled.

¹¹ “Indeed, Judah, a harvest is set for you when I shall return My people from captivity.”