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Hosea 6

11 aligned verses; 11 with wording or punctuation differences .

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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, 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.
He doth revive us after two days , In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him .
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight .
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. '
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.
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 .
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 .
Therefore I have hewed by prophets , I have slain them by sayings of My mouth , And My judgments to the light goeth forth.
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.
For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice , And a knowledge of God above burnt - offerings.
For I desired mercy , and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
And they , as Adam, transgressed a covenant , There they dealt treacherously against me.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead ` is ' a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done .
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness .
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing , There ` is ' the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim , Israel is defiled .
Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back `to' the captivity of My people !
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people .

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