English Bible
Hosea 6
Big screen- 1Come, 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.
- 2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
- 3Then 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.
- 4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto you? O Judah, what shall I do unto you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.
- 5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.
- 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- 7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
- 8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
- 9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
- 10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
- 11Also, O Judah, he has set an harvest for you, when I returned the captivity of my people.