Hosea, 6
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;
1. "Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.
2. after two days he will revive us, on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his presence.
2. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
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.
3. Let us know, let us press on to know the LORD; his going forth is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth."
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.
4. What shall I do with you, O E'phraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.
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-
5. Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6. for faithful love is what pleases me, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not burnt offerings.
6. For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.
7. But they have broken the covenant at Adam, there they have betrayed me.
7. But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8. Gilead is a city of evil-doers, full of bloody footprints.
8. Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
9. Like so many robbers in ambush, a gang of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem- what infamous behaviour!
9. As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the way to Shechem, yea, they commit villainy.
10. At Bethel I have seen a horrible thing; there Ephraim plays the whore, Israel is befouled.
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; E'phraim's harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.
11. For you too, Judah, a harvest is in store, when I restore my people's fortunes.
11. For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
