Hosea 6

1''Let us go and return to the Lord our God; For He has grasped and will heal us; He will smite and plug the wound with lint.

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2After two days He will heal us. In the third day we shall rise And live before Him.

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3Let us know, let us pursue That we might know the Lord. We shall find Him ready as the day break, And He will come to us As the early and latter rain to the earth.'

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4'What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? What shall I do to you, O Judah? Your mercy is as a morning cloud And as the early dew that goes away.

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5Therefore I have cut off your prophets; I have slain them with the words of My mouth, And My judgment shall go forth as the light.

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6For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God More than whole burnt offerings.

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7But they are as a man who transgresses the covenant; There they despised Me.

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8Gilead is a city working vanity with troubling water.

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9Your strength is that of a pirate; The priests have hidden the way; They have murdered the people of Shechem, For they have done lawlessness.

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10In the house of Israel I have seen horrible things; There is the fornication of Ephraim; Israel and Judah are defiled.

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11Begin to harvest for yourself When I return the captives of My people.

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