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Hosea 6

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` Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us , He doth smite , and He bindeth us up.

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces , but He will heal us ; He has wounded us , but He will bind up our wounds .

He doth revive us after two days , In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him .

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence .

And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth , And He cometh in as a shower to us , As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth. '

So let us know — let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises , He will appear; He will come to us like the rain , like the spring showers that water the earth.

What do I do to thee , O Ephraim? What do I do to thee , O Judah? Your goodness ` is ' as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going .

What shall I do with you , O Ephraim ? What shall I do with you , O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist , like the early dew that vanishes .

Therefore I have hewed by prophets , I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets ; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning .

For kindness I desired , and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt - offerings.

For I desire mercy , not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant , There they dealt treacherously against me.

But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant ; there they were unfaithful to Me.

Gilead ` is ' a city of workers of iniquity , Slippery from blood.

Gilead is a city of evildoers , tracked with footprints of blood.

And as bands do wait for a man , A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem , For wickedness they have done .

Like raiders who lie in ambush , so does a band of priests ; they murder on the way to Shechem ; surely they have committed atrocities .

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing , There ` is ' the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel .

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing : Ephraim practices prostitution there , and Israel is defiled.

Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee , In My turning back `to' the captivity of My people !

Also for you , O Judah, a harvest is appointed , when I restore My people from captivity.

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