Hosea 6

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Hosea 6

A Call to Repentance

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Come, let us return to the Lord.^(A)
For He has torn us,^(B)
and He will heal us;^(C)
He has wounded us,
and He will bind up our wounds.^(D)

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He will revive us after two days,^(E)
and on the third day He will raise us up
so we can live in His presence.^(F)

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Let us strive to know the Lord.^(G)
His appearance is as sure as the dawn.^(H)
He will come to us like the rain,^(I)
like the spring showers that water the land.

The Lord ’s First Lament

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What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?^(J)
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist^(K)
and like the early dew that vanishes.

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This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;^(a)^(L)
I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.^(b)

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For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God^(M) rather than burnt offerings.^(N)

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But they, like Adam,^(c) have violated the covenant;^(O)
there they have betrayed Me.^(P)

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Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(Q)
tracked with bloody footprints.^(R)

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Like raiders who wait in ambush for someone,^(S)
a band of priests murders on the road to Shechem.^(T)
They commit atrocities.^(U)

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I have seen something horrible^(V) in the house of Israel:
Ephraim’s promiscuity is there;^(W) Israel is defiled.

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A harvest is also appointed for you, Judah.^(X)

When I^(d) return My people from captivity,^(Y)

Footnotes:

a. Hosea 6:5: Or have cut down the prophets

b. Hosea 6:5: LXX, Syr, Tg; MT reads Your judgments go out as light

c. Hosea 6:7: Or they, as at Adam, or they, like men,

d. Hosea 6:11: Or you. Judah, when I

Cross references:

A. Hosea 6:1: Jeremiah 50:4-5

B. Hosea 6:1: Hosea 5:14

C. Hosea 6:1: Hosea 14:4

D. Hosea 6:1: Isaiah 30:26

E. Hosea 6:2: Psalm 30:5

F. Hosea 6:2: Deuteronomy 32:39

G. Hosea 6:3: Isaiah 2:3

H. Hosea 6:3: Psalm 19:6

I. Hosea 6:3: Joel 2:23

J. Hosea 6:4: Hosea 7:1; Hosea 11:8

K. Hosea 6:4: Psalm 78:34-37

L. Hosea 6:5: Jeremiah 1:10; Jeremiah 1:18; Jeremiah 5:14

M. Hosea 6:6: Hosea 4:1

N. Hosea 6:6: Matthew 9:13; Matthew 12:7

O. Hosea 6:7: Hosea 8:1

P. Hosea 6:7: Hosea 5:7

Q. Hosea 6:8: Hosea 12:11

R. Hosea 6:8: Hosea 4:2

S. Hosea 6:9: Hosea 7:1

T. Hosea 6:9: Jeremiah 7:9-10

U. Hosea 6:9: Ezekiel 22:9; Ezekiel 23:27

V. Hosea 6:10: Jeremiah 5:30-31; Jeremiah 23:14

W. Hosea 6:10: Hosea 5:3

X. Hosea 6:11: Jeremiah 51:33; Joel 3:13

Y. Hosea 6:11: Zephaniah 2:7