Hosea

6* Come, let us get back to Jehovah, because it was his pounce maimed us, he wounds and will bandage us. 2* He will make us well in two days, the third day he will have us standing up, to be alive before him and know him. 3** Let us strive to know Jehovah; like gray dawn, his coming up is ready; and he will come to us like rain, like spring rains watering earth.

4 What shall I do with you, Ephraim? what shall I do with you, Judah? your friendliness is like a morning cloud and like dew that goes off the first thing in the morning. 5 Therefore I have hewed with prophets, killed them with the say of my mouth; and my judgment comes out like daylight, 6 that I take pleasure in friendliness, not in sacrifice, and in acquaintance with God rather than in burnt-offerings. 7* But they have broken treaty at Adam; there they have played me false; 8* Gilead is a town of villains, tracked with blood; 9* and as a man hides seed-corn priests have hid my ways; they have murdered at Shekem because they were committing enormity. 10* In the house of Israel I have seen a horror; there Ephraim had prostitution, Israel was defiled; 11** Judah too has fixed a harvest for you.