Hosea 5:15–6:3

¹⁵Then I will go back to my place

until they suffer for their guilt and turn back to me.

In their trouble they will look for me.”

The People Are Not Faithful

6“Come, let’s go back to the Lord.

He has hurt us, but he will heal us.

He has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds.

²In two days he will put new life in us;

on the third day he will raise us up

so that we may live in his presence ³and know him.

Let’s try to learn about the Lord;

he will come to us as surely as the dawn comes.

He will come to us like rain,

like the spring rain that waters the ground.”