HOSEA.
6.
 The Israeli people say, “Come, let’s return to Yahweh! He has caused  us to be injured, but he will heal us. He has caused  us to be wounded, but  it is as though he will put bandages on our wounds MET. 
After a very short time he will revive us; in less than three days he will restore us in order that we may live in his presence. 
We must try to know Yahweh;  if we do that, he will come  and help us, as surely as the sun rises  every morning, as surely as rain falls every winter/cold season, and as surely as the rain falls again ◄in the springtime/at the end of the cold season►.” 
 But Yahweh knows they are insincere;  so he says to them, “You  people of Israel, and you  people of Judah,  I do not know RHQ what I should do to you. Your being faithful  to me will disappear as quickly as SIM the morning mist  disappears, like SIM the dew  on the ground that disappears quickly  when the sun shines. 
I warned HYP you by  the messages that I gave to the prophets,  but you did not pay attention to my messages. Therefore I will completely destroy you; the punishment that I give you will strike you like lightning. 
I want  my people to faithfully love  me more than  I want them to offer sacrifices  to me;  I want them to know me more than  I want them to completely burn sacrifices  on the altar. 
But they have refused to obey my agreement,  just like Adam did; they have not been faithful to me. 
Gilead is a city  full of people who do wicked things;  in the streets are the bloody footprints  of those who have murdered others. 
The priests are like SIM bandits who wait ◄in ambushes/along the road► to attack people; they murder  people who are walking on the road to Shechem, and they commit other disgraceful crimes. 
I have seen horrible things  being done in Israel MTY. The people have abandoned me  like prostitutes who have abandoned their husbands MET;  so the people of Israel have become unacceptable to me. 
And you  people of Judah, I have appointed a time when I will punish MET you, too. Whenever I wanted to enable my people to prosper again,”