Hosea 6

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