Hosea 6
About Hosea Hosea uses the prophet's own unfaithful marriage to show God's faithful love for unfaithful Israel.
1Come, 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.SelectedHosea 6:1Ask
2After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.SelectedHosea 6:2Ask
3Then 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.SelectedHosea 6:3Ask
4O 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.SelectedHosea 6:4Ask
5Therefore 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.SelectedHosea 6:5Ask
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.SelectedHosea 6:6Ask
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.SelectedHosea 6:7Ask
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.SelectedHosea 6:8Ask
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.SelectedHosea 6:9Ask
10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.SelectedHosea 6:10Ask
11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.SelectedHosea 6:11Ask
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