Hosea 6 — parallel

6:1

Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

6:2

After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know [him]:

After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

6:3

let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.

So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

6:4

What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Juda? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.

What shall I do with you, ? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes.

6:5

Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.

Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth, and My judgments go forth like lightning.

6:6

For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole-burnt-offerings.

For I desire mercy, not , and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

6:7

But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:

But they, like Adam, the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.

6:8

there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.

Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with footprints of blood.

6:9

And thy strength [is that] of a robber: the priests have hid the way, they have murdered [the people of] Sicima; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

6:10

I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Juda are defiled;

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim practices prostitution there, and Israel is defiled.

6:11

begin to gather grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.

Also for you, O Judah, a harvest is appointed, when I restore My people .