Hosea 6

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
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 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 he wil revive us, on the third day he wil raise us up and we shal live in his presence.	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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 burnt offerings.
7 But they have broken the covenant at Adam, there they have betrayed me.	7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a city of evil-doers, ful of bloody footprints.	8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9 Like so many robbers in ambush, a gang of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem- whatinfamous behaviour!	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.
10 At Bethel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim plays the whore, Israel is befouled.	10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11 For you too, Judah, a harvest is in store, when I restore my people's fortunes.	11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.