Hosea Chapter Six

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.

2    After two days will he revive us:  in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

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.

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.

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.

6    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;  and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7    But they like men have transgressed the covenant:  there have they dealt treacherously against me.

8    Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

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.

10    I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:  there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11    Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

    Hosea Chapter Six - KJV