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| The Book of Hosea 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Basic English Online Bible (BEN) | ||||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:1 | Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:2 | After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:3 | And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:4 | O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:5 | So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth; | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:6 | Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:7 | But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:8 | Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:9 | And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design. | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:10 | In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean; | |||||||||||||||
| Hosea 6:11 | And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself. | |||||||||||||||
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