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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