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title: Hosea 6
slug: kjv/hosea-6
createdAt: 2024-08-25T02:47:00.421Z
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**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.

**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.

**6 **For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

**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.

**11 **Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.