Jubilee2000 - Hosea - 6

6:1  Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.

6:2  After two days he shall give us life: in the third day he will resurrect us, and we shall live in his sight.

6:3  And we shall know and follow on in knowing the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth.

6:4  O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? Your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.

6:5  Therefore I have hewed [them]by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: that thy righteousness [be] as the light [that] goes forth.

6:6  For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

6:7  But they have transposed the covenant as of men: there they have rebelled against me.

6:8  Gilead [is] a city of those that work iniquity [and is] polluted with blood.

6:9  And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the council of priests murder in the way by common accord; for they put the abomination into effect.

6:10  I saw uncleanness in the house of Israel: there Ephraim played the harlot, Israel defiled herself.

6:11  Also, Judah placed [a] plant in thee when I had turned the captivity of my people.: