Hosea 6

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
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;	1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord:
2 after two days he wil revive us, on the third day he wil raise us up and we shal live in his presence.	2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.
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.	3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
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.	4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.
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-	5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
6 for faithful love is what pleases me, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burnt offerings.	6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7 But they have broken the covenant at Adam, there they have betrayed me.	7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a city of evil-doers, ful of bloody footprints.	8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
9 Like so many robbers in ambush, a gang of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem- whatinfamous behaviour!	9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
10 At Bethel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim plays the whore, Israel is befouled.	10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
11 For you too, Judah, a harvest is in store, when I restore my people's fortunes.	11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.