Hosea 6

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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 Come, let us return to Yahweh. He has rent us and he wil heal us; he has struck us and he will bind upour 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 after two days he wil revive us, on the third day he wil raise us up and we shal 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 Yahweh; that he will come is as certain as the dawn. He wil come tous like a shower, like the rain of springtime to 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 am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? For your love is like morningmist, like the dew that quickly disappears.
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 This is why I have hacked them to pieces by means of the prophets, why I have kil ed them with wordsfrom my mouth, why my sentence wil blaze forth like the dawn-
⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.	⁶ for faithful love is what pleases me, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burnt offerings.
⁷ But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.	⁷ But they have broken the covenant at Adam, there they have betrayed me.
⁸ Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.	⁸ Gilead is a city of evil-doers, ful of bloody footprints.
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 Like so many robbers in ambush, a gang of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem- whatinfamous behaviour!
¹⁰ I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.	¹⁰ At Bethel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim plays the whore, Israel is befouled.
¹¹ Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.	¹¹ For you too, Judah, a harvest is in store, when I restore my people's fortunes.