Hosea 6–7

6Come, and ^alet us return unto the Lord:

For ^bhe hath ^ctorn, and ^bdhe will heal us;

He hath smitten, and ^ehe will bind us up.

²After two days will ^fhe revive us:

^gIn the third day he will raise us up,

And we shall live in his sight.

^3hThen shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:

ⁱHis going forth is prepared ^jas the morning;

And ^khe shall come unto us as the rain,

As ^lmthe latter and ^lformer rain unto the earth.

⁴ⁿO Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?

ⁿO Judah, what shall I do unto thee?

For your ^||goodness is ^oas a morning cloud,

^oAnd as the early dew it goeth away.

⁵Therefore have I hewed them ^pby the prophets;

I have slain them ^qby the words of my mouth:

^||And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

⁶For ^rI desired mercy, and ^rsnot sacrifice;

And ^tthe knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

⁷But they ^||like men ^uhave transgressed the covenant:

There ^vhave they dealt treacherously against me.

^8wGilead is a city of them that work iniquity,

And is ^||polluted with blood.

⁹And as ^ytroops of robbers wait for a man,

^zSo ^athe company of priests murder in the way ^†by consent:

For ^dthey commit ^||lewdness.

¹⁰I have seen ^ean horrible thing in the house of Israel:

^fThere is the whoredom of Ephraim, ^fIsrael is defiled.

¹¹Also, O Judah, ^ghe hath set an harvest for thee,

^hWhen I returned the captivity of my people.

7When I would have healed Israel,

Then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the ^†awickedness of ^bSamaria:

For they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in,

And ^cthe troop of robbers ^†dspoileth without.

²And they ^†consider not in their hearts

That I remember all their ^awickedness:

Now ^etheir own doings have beset them about;

They are ^fbefore my face.

^3gThey make the king glad with their ^awickedness,

And the princes ^gwith their lies.

^4hThey are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,

^||Who ceaseth ^||from raising after he hath ⁱkneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

⁵In the day ^kof our king the princes have made him sick ^||with ^lbottles of wine;

He stretched out his hand with scorners.

⁶For they have ^||made ready their heart ^olike an oven, whiles ^mthey lie in wait:

ⁿTheir baker sleepeth all the night;

In ^nothe morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

⁷They are all hot as an oven,

And have devoured their judges;

^pAll their kings ^qare fallen:

There is ^rnone among them that calleth unto me.

⁸Ephraim, ^she hath mixed himself among the people;

Ephraim is a cake not turned.

^9tStrangers have devoured his strength, ^uand he knoweth it not:

Yea, gray hairs are ^†here and there upon him, ^uyet he knoweth not.

¹⁰And ^vthe pride of Israel testifieth to his face:

And ^wthey do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.

^11xEphraim also is like a ^ysilly dove without heart:

^xzaThey call to Egypt, ^abthey go to Assyria.

¹²When they shall go, ^cI will spread my net upon them;

I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven;

^dI will chastise them, ^eas their congregation hath heard.

¹³Woe unto them! for they have fled from me:

^†fDestruction unto them! because they have transgressed against me:

Though ^gI have redeemed them, yet they have ^hspoken lies against me.

¹⁴And ⁱthey have not cried unto me with their heart,

When they howled ^jupon their beds:

They assemble themselves for corn and ^kwine,

And they rebel against me.

¹⁵Though I ^||have bound and ^lstrengthened their arms,

Yet do they imagine mischief against me.

¹⁶They return, but not to ^mthe most High:

They are ⁿlike a deceitful bow:

Their princes shall fall by the sword ^ofor the rage of their tongue:

This shall be their derision ^pin the land of Egypt.