HO-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.

HO-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.

HO-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.

HO-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.

HO-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.

HO-6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge

of God more than burnt offerings.

HO-6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there

have they dealt treacherously against me.

HO-6:8 Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is]

polluted with blood.

HO-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.

HO-6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:

there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

HO-6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I

returned the captivity of my people.

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