{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/jps/hos006.htm","path":"bib/jps/hos006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/jps/hos006.htm","text":"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.\n6:2 After two days will He revive us, on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.\n6:3 And let us know, eagerly strive to know the Lord, His going forth is sure as the morning; and He shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.'\n6:4 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 dew that early passeth away.\n6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth; and thy judgment goeth forth as the light.\n6:6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings.\n6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against Me.\n6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.\n6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so doth the company of priests; they murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they commit enormity.\n6:10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; there harlotry is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.\n6:11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee! When I would turn the captivity of My people,","title":"Jewish Publication Society Bible: Hosea: Hosea Chapter 6","type":"page"}