<< Hosea 6 >>
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The Response to God’s Rebuke

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.
2 “He will revive us after two days;
         He will raise us up on the third day,
         That we may live before Him.
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.”
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.
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.
6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
         And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
         There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
         Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
         So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
         Surely they have committed crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
         Ephraim’s harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,
         When I restore the fortunes of My people.

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