{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/hos006.htm","path":"bib/kjv/hos006.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/hos006.htm","text":"1\u00a0Come, 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.\n \n2\u00a0After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.\n \n3\u00a0Then 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.\n \n4\u00a0O 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.\n \n5\u00a0Therefore 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.\n \n6\u00a0For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.\n \n7\u00a0But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.\n \n8\u00a0Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.\n \n9\u00a0And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.\n \n10\u00a0I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.\n \n11\u00a0Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.","title":"King James Version: Hosea: Hosea Chapter 6","type":"page"}