Hosea 6 — UBES
6Verse 1Let us go, and return to the Lord our God; for he has torn, and will heal us; he will smite, and bind us up.Verse 2After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and live before him, and shall know him:Verse 3let 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.Verse 4What shall I do unto thee, Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, Judah? whereas your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that goes away.Verse 5Therefore 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.Verse 6For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.Verse 7But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:Verse 8there the city Gilead despised me, working vanity, troubling water.Verse 9And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hidden the way, they have murdered the people of Shechem; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.Verse 10I have seen horrible things there, even the fornication of Ephraim: Israel and Judah are defiled;Verse 11begin to gather grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my people.