Hosea, 6
1. In their affliction, they shall look for me: "Come, let us return to the LORD, For it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.
1. Come, let us return to Yahweh. He has rent us and he will heal us; he has struck us and he will bind up our wounds;
2. He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.
2. after two days he will revive us, on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his presence.
3. Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth."
3. Let us know, let us strive to know Yahweh; that he will come is as certain as the dawn. He will come to us like a shower, like the rain of springtime to the earth.
4. What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud, like the dew that early passes away.
4. What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? For your love is like morning mist, like the dew that quickly disappears.
5. For this reason I smote them through the prophets, I slew them by the words of my mouth;
5. This is why I have hacked them to pieces by means of the prophets, why I have killed them with words from my mouth, why my sentence will blaze forth like the dawn-
6. For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts.
6. for faithful love is what pleases me, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burnt offerings.
7. But they, in their land, violated the covenant; there they were untrue to me.
7. But they have broken the covenant at Adam, there they have betrayed me.
8. Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
8. Gilead is a city of evil-doers, full of bloody footprints.
9. As brigands ambush a man, a band of priests slay on the way to Shechem, committing monstrous crime.
9. Like so many robbers in ambush, a gang of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem- what infamous behaviour!
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
10. At Bethel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim plays the whore, Israel is befouled.
11. For you also, O Judah, a harvest has been appointed.
11. For you too, Judah, a harvest is in store, when I restore my people's fortunes.
