Hosea 5:15
15 aI will return again to my place,until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and bin their distress earnestly seek me.
Hosea 6
Israel and Judah Are Unrepentant
1 “Come, let us creturn to the Lord;for dhe has torn us, that he may heal us;
he has struck us down, and ehe will bind us up.
2After two days fhe will revive us;
on the third day he will raise us up,
that we may live before him.
3 gLet us know; hlet us press on to know the Lord;
ihis going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us jas the showers,
kas the spring rains that water the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, lO mEphraim?
What shall I do with you, O nJudah?
Your love is olike a morning cloud,
plike the dew that goes early away.
5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
I have slain them qby the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6For rI desire steadfast love ▼
▼Septuagint mercy
and not sacrifice,tthe knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But ulike Adam they vtransgressed the covenant;
wthere they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 xGilead is a city of evildoers,
ytracked with blood.
9As robbers zlie in wait for a man,
so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to aaShechem;
they commit villainy.
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
abEphraim’s whoredom is there; acIsrael is defiled.
11 For you also, O adJudah, aea harvest is appointed.
When afI restore the fortunes of my people,
Hosea 7:1-3
1 agwhen I would heal Israel,the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
and the evil deeds of ahSamaria,
for aithey deal falsely;
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid outside.
2But they do not consider
that ajI remember all their evil.
Now aktheir deeds surround them;
althey are before my face.
3By their evil amthey make anthe king glad,
and the princes by their treachery.
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