Hosea 6
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Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath
smitten, and he will bind us up.
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After two days will he revive us: in the
third day he will raise us up, Lk. 24.46 · 1 Cor. 15.4 and we shall live in his sight.
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Then shall we know, if we follow
on to know the LORD: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as
the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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O E'phra-im, what shall I do unto thee?
O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a
morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
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Therefore have I hewed them by the
prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy
judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; Mt.
9.13 ; 12.7 and
the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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But they like men have transgressed the
covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Gil'e-ad is a city of them that
work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for
they commit lewdness.
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I have seen a horrible thing in the house
of Israel: there is the whoredom of E'phra-im, Israel is
defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest
for thee, when I returned the captivity of my
people.
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