Hosea 6
The Response to God’s Rebuke
1 “ aCome, let’s return to the Lord.
For bHe has torn us, but cHe will heal us;
He has ▼
▼Lit struck
wounded us, but He will ebandage us. 2 “He will frevive us after two days;
He will graise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
3 “So let’s hlearn, let’s press on to know the Lord.
His iappearance is as sure as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the jrain,
As the spring rain waters the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, kEphraim?
What shall I do with you, Judah?
For your loyalty is like a lmorning cloud,
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have mcut them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the nwords of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that ▼
▼Lit proceeds
shines. 6 For pI ▼
▼Or take pleasure in
desire loyalty rrather than sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But slike ▼
▼Or men
Adam they have uviolated the covenant; There they have vdealt treacherously with Me.
8 wGilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with xbloody footprints.
9 And as a yband of robbers lie in wait for a person,
So a band of priests zmurder on the way to Shechem;
Certainly they have committed an act of aainfamy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a abhorrible thing;
Ephraim’s acinfidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, Judah, there is a adharvest appointed for you,
When I aerestore the fortunes of My people.
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