Hosea 6

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 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.	1 In their affliction, they shall look for me: "Come, let us return to the LORD, For it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.
2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.	2 He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.
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.	3 Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters 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.	4 What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud, like the dew that early passes 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.	5 For this reason I smote them through the prophets, I slew them by the words of my mouth;
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.	6 For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.	7 But they, in their land, violated the covenant; there they were untrue to me.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.	8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.	9 As brigands ambush a man, a band of priests slay on the way to Shechem, committing monstrous crime.
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.	10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.	11 For you also, O Judah, a harvest has been appointed.