| Chapter 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. |
| 2
| After two days will he revive us: in the third day he
will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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6 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the
knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
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7 | But they like men have
transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against
me. |
| 8 |
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with
blood. |
| 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. |
| 10 | I
have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of
Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
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11 | Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest
for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |
