Osee 6

¹In their tribulation early they will rise up to me: Come, & let us return to our Lord.

²Because he hath wounded, & will heal us: he will strike, & will cure us.

³He will revive us after two days: in the third day he will raise us up, & we shall live in his sight. We shall know, & we shall follow, that we may know our Lord. As the morning light, is his coming forth prepared, and he will come to us as a shower timely, and late to the earth.

⁴What shall I do to thee Ephraim? What shall I do to thee Juda? Your mercy as a morning cloud, & as the dew passing away in the morning.

⁵For this have I hewed in Prophets, I have killed them in the words of my mouth: and thy judgements shall come forth as the light:

⁶because I would mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

⁷But they as Adam have transgressed the covenant, there have they prevaricated against me.

⁸Galaad a city of them that work idol, supplanted with blood.

⁹And as it were the jaws of men that are robbers, partaker with the Priests, of them that in the way kill those that pass out of Sichem: because they have wrought wickedness.

¹⁰In the house of Israel I saw an horrible thing: there the fornications of Ephraim: Israel is contaminated.

¹¹Yea and thou Juda put thee an harvest, when I shall convert the captivity of my people.