HOSEA 6: 1 – 11

VERSE 1

Ho:6:1: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 2

Ho:6:2: After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

 

 

 

VERSE 3

Ho:6:3: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 4

Ho:6:4: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 5

Ho:6:5: 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.

 

 

 

VERSE 6

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

 

 

 

VERSE 7

Ho:6:7: But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

 

 

 

VERSE 8

Ho:6:8: Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

 

 

 

 

VERSE 9

Ho:6:9: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

 

 

 

VERSE 10

Ho:6:10: I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

 

 

 

VERSE 11

Ho:6:11: Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

 

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