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Hosea 6
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1Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.
1In their affliction they will seek me early, saying, Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us;
2After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:
2he will strike, and bind us up.
3let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
3After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:
4What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.
4let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
5Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.
5What shall I do to you, Ephraim? What shall I do to you, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.
6For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt-offerings.
6Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.
7But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
7For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.
8there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.
8But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
9And thy strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.
9there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.
10I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;
10And your strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.
11begin to gather grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.
11I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;