Hos 6:1 "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.
Hos 6:2 "He will revive us after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.
Hos 6:3 "So 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."
Hos 6:4 ¶ What 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.
Hos 6:5 Therefore 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.
Hos 6:6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hos 6:7 But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
Hos 6:8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.
Hos 6:9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.
Hos 6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
Hos 6:11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of My people.
Hos 7:1 When I would heal Israel, The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, And the evil deeds of Samaria, For they deal falsely; The thief enters in, Bandits raid outside,
Hos 7:2 And they do not consider in their hearts That I remember all their wickedness. Now their deeds are all around them; They are before My face.
Hos 7:3 With their wickedness they make the king glad, And the princes with their lies.
Hos 7:4 They are all adulterers, Like an oven heated by the baker Who ceases to stir up the fire From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.
Hos 7:5 On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; He stretched out his hand with scoffers,
Hos 7:6 For their hearts are like an oven As they approach their plotting; Their anger smolders all night, In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
Hos 7:7 All of them are hot like an oven, And they consume their rulers; All their kings have fallen. None of them calls on Me.
Hos 7:8 ¶ Ephraim mixes himself with the nations; Ephraim has become a cake not turned.
Hos 7:9 Strangers devour his strength, Yet he does not know it; Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him, Yet he does not know it.