6:1 In their affliction they will seek me
early, saying, 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.
6:2 After two days he will heal us: in the third day we shall arise, and
live before him, and shall know [him]:
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.
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.
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.
6:6 For I will [have] mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God
rather than whole-burnt-offerings.
6:7 But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
6:8 there the city Galaad despised me, working vanity, troubling water.
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.
6:10 I have seen horrible [things] there, [even] the fornication of Ephraim:
Israel and Juda are defiled;
6:11 begin together grapes for thyself, when I turn the captivity of my
people. |
6:1 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.
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up,
and we shall live in his sight.
6:3 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.
6:4 O Ephraim, 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.
6:5 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.
6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more
than burnt offerings.
6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt
treacherously against me.
6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests
murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the
whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the
captivity of my people. |