Hosea 6
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

A Call to Repentance

1“Come, let us return to the Lord;
    for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
    he has struck down, and he will bind us up.
2After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
3Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;
    his appearing is as sure as the dawn;
he will come to us like the showers,
    like the spring rains that water the earth.”

Impenitence of Israel and Judah

4What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
    like the dew that goes away early.
5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,
    I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
    and my[a] judgment goes forth as the light.
6For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

7But at[b] Adam they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    tracked with blood.
9As robbers lie in wait[c] for someone,
    so the priests are banded together;[d]
they murder on the road to Shechem,
    they commit a monstrous crime.
10In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    Ephraim’s whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.

11For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.

When I would restore the fortunes of my people,

Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:5 Gk Syr: Heb your
  2. Hosea 6:7 Cn: Heb like
  3. Hosea 6:9 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. Hosea 6:9 Syr: Heb are a company
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