King James VersionHosea6

Hosea

1 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. 2 Af­ter two days will he re­vive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 For I de­sired mer­cy, and not sac­ri­fice; and the knowl­edge of God more than burnt of­fer­ings. 7 But they like men have trans­gressed the covenant: there have they dealt treach­er­ous­ly against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work in­iq­ui­ty, and is pol­lut­ed with blood. 9 And as troops of rob­bers wait for a man, so the com­pa­ny of priests mur­der in the way by con­sent: for they com­mit lewd­ness. 10 I have seen an hor­ri­ble thing in the house of Is­rael: there is the whore­dom of Ephraim, Is­rael is de­filed. 11 Al­so, O Ju­dah, he hath set an har­vest for thee, when I re­turned the cap­tiv­i­ty of my peo­ple.