Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
6 “Come, let us (A)return to the Lord;
for (B)he has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and (C)he will bind us up.
2 After two days (D)he will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 (E)Let us know; (F)let us press on to know the Lord;
(G)his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us (H)as the showers,
(I)as the spring rains that water the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, (J)O (K)Ephraim?
What shall I do with you, O (L)Judah?
Your love is (M)like a morning cloud,
(N)like the dew that goes early away.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them (O)by the words of my mouth,
and my judgement goes forth as the light.
6 For (P)I desire steadfast love[a] and not sacrifice,
(Q)the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But (R)like Adam they (S)transgressed the covenant;
(T)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 (U)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
(V)tracked with blood.
9 As robbers (W)lie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (X)Shechem;
they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
(Y)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (Z)Israel is defiled.
11 For you also, O (AA)Judah, (AB)a harvest is appointed,
when (AC)I restore the fortunes of my people.
Footnotes
- Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy
Cross references
- Hosea 6:1 : ch. 14:1; [ch. 3:5]
- Hosea 6:1 : ch. 5:14; [ch. 13:7, 8]
- Hosea 6:1 : [Isa. 30:26]
- Hosea 6:2 : Ps. 71:20; [Luke 24:27, 44; John 2:22; 20:9; 1 Cor. 15:4]
- Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
- Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 4:6]
- Hosea 6:3 : Mic. 5:2
- Hosea 6:3 : [ch. 14:5]
- Hosea 6:3 : Joel 2:23
- Hosea 6:4 : [ch. 11:8]
- Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
- Hosea 6:4 : ver. 10, 11; ch. 4:15; 5:5; 8:14; 10:11; 11:12; 12:1, 2; See ch. 5:9-14
- Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
- Hosea 6:4 : ch. 13:3
- Hosea 6:5 : Jer. 23:29; [Heb. 4:12]
- Hosea 6:6 : Cited Matt. 9:13; 12:7; [1 Sam. 15:22]
- Hosea 6:6 : [ch. 2:20]
- Hosea 6:7 : [Gen. 3:11; Job 31:33; Rom. 5:14]
- Hosea 6:7 : ch. 8:1; Deut. 17:2
- Hosea 6:7 : ch. 5:7
- Hosea 6:8 : [ch. 12:11]
- Hosea 6:8 : See ch. 4:2
- Hosea 6:9 : [ch. 5:1; 7:6]
- Hosea 6:9 : Josh. 24:1
- Hosea 6:10 : ch. 5:3; 7:4; [ch. 4:2, 12, 14; 9:10]
- Hosea 6:10 : See ver. 4
- Hosea 6:11 : [See ver. 10 above]; See ver. 4
- Hosea 6:11 : See Joel 3:13
- Hosea 6:11 : Ps. 126:1; [Job 42:10]