LEB HOS Chapter 6

A Call to Yahweh

• 6 Come, let us return to Yahweh;
• because it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
• he has struck us down and will bind us up.
  • 2 He will revive us after two days;
• on the third day he will raise us up,
  • that we may live in his presence.[fn]
• 3 Let us know, let us press on to know Yahweh;
  • his rising is sure like the dawn.
• He will come like the showers to us,
  • like the spring rain that waters the earth.
• 4 What will I do with you, O Ephraim?
  • What will I do with you, O Judah?
• Your love is like a morning cloud,
  • like the dew that goes away early in the morning.
• 5 Therefore, I have hewn them by the prophets;
  • I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
  • and my judgment[fn] goes forth like the light.
• 6 Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
  • and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
• 7 But like Adam, they transgressed the covenant;
  • there they dealt faithlessly with me.
• 8 Gilead is a city of evil,
  • a cunning city because of blood.[fn]
• 9 Like bandits lying in wait,
  • so is a band of priests;
• they murder on the road to Shechem;
  • indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.
• 10 In the house of Israel I have seen something horrible;
  • Ephraim’s unfaithfulness is there.
    • Israel is defiled.

Ephraim’s Guilt

• 11 For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed,
  • when I restore the fortunes of my people,