Hosea 6

The Response to God’s Rebuke

1“Come, let us return to the Lord .

For He has torn us, but He will heal us;

He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.

2He will revive us after two days;

He will raise us up on the third day,

That we may live before Him.

3So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord .

His going forth is as certain as the dawn;

And He will come to us like the rain,

Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?

What shall I do with you, O Judah?

For your loyalty is like a morning cloud

And like the dew which goes away early.

5Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets;

I have slain them by the words of My mouth;

And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.

6For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,

And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

7But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;

There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

8Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,

Tracked with bloody footprints.

9And as raiders wait for a man,

So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;

Surely they have committed crime.

10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;

Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

11Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,

When I restore the fortunes of My people.

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