“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.” (Hosea
6:1-11 AV)