6:1 Come and let us return to the LORD, for He has torn, and He will heal us; He has smitten, and He will bind us up. |
6:2 After two days He will revive us; in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight. |
6:3 Then we shall understand, if we follow on to know the LORD. His going out is prepared as the morning; and He shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth. |
6:4 "O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? For your goodness is like a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away. |
6:5 So I have cut them down by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth. And the judgments against you are as the light that goes forth, |
6:6 For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
6:7 But, like men, they have broken the covenant. They have acted like traitors against Me there. |
6:8 Gilead is a city of troublemakers, and is polluted with blood. |
6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; for they committed wickedness. |
6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; the whoredom of Ephraim is there; Israel is defiled. |
6:11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed to you, when I reverse the captivity of My people." |