Hosea 6 - 7 — Legacy Standard Bible

Israel Chastised

6“^aCome, let us return to Yahweh.For ^bHe has torn us, but ^cHe will heal us;He has struck us, but He will ^dbandage us.²“He will ^amake us alive after two days;He will ^braise us up on the third day,That we may live before Him.³“So let us ^aknow, let us pursue to know Yahweh.His ^bgoing forth is established as the dawn;And He will come to us like the ^crain,Like the ¹late rain watering the earth.”⁴What shall I do with you, O ^aEphraim?What shall I do with you, O Judah?For your lovingkindness is like a ^bmorning cloudAnd like the dew which goes away early.⁵Therefore I have ^ahewn them in pieces by the prophets;I have killed them by the ^bwords of My mouth;And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.⁶For ^aI delight in lovingkindness ^brather than sacrifice,And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.⁷But ^alike ¹Adam they have ^btrespassed against the covenant;There they have ^cdealt treacherously against Me.⁸^aGilead is a city of workers of iniquity,With a track of ^bblood.⁹And as ^araiders wait for a man,So a band of priests ^bmurder on the way to Shechem;Surely they have committed ^clewdness.¹⁰In the house of Israel I have seen an ^aappalling thing;Ephraim’s ^bharlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.¹¹Also, O Judah, there is a ^aharvest set for youWhen I ^brestore the fortunes of My people,7When I ^awould heal Israel,Then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,And the evil deeds of Samaria,For they work ^bfalsehood;The thief enters in;^cRaiders ¹ransack outside,²And they do not say to their heartsThat I ^aremember all their evil.Now their ^bdeeds are all around them;They are before My face.³^aWith their evil they make the ^bking glad,And the princes with their ^cdeceptions.⁴They are ^aall adulterers,Like an oven heated by the bakerWho ceases to stir up the fireFrom the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.⁵On the ¹day of our king, the princes ^abecame sick with the heat of wine;He stretched out his hand with ^bscoffers,⁶For their hearts are like an ^aovenAs they draw near in their ¹plotting;Their ²anger ³smolders all night;In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.⁷All of them are hot like an oven,And they devour their ^ajudges;All their kings have fallen.^bNone of them calls on Me.⁸Ephraim ^amixes himself with the peoples;Ephraim has become a cake not turned.⁹^aStrangers devour his power,Yet he ^bdoes not know it;Gray hairs also are sprinkled on him,Yet he does not know it.¹⁰So the ^apride of Israel answers against him,Yet ^bthey have not returned to Yahweh their God,Nor have they sought Him, for all this.¹¹So ^aEphraim has become like a silly dove, ^bwithout a heart of wisdom;They call to ^cEgypt; they go to ^dAssyria.¹²When they go, I will ^aspread My net over them;I will bring them down like the birds of the sky.I will ^bchastise them in accordance with the report to their congregation.¹³^aWoe to them, for they have ^bfled from Me!Destruction is theirs, for they have transgressed against Me!And I ^cwould redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.¹⁴And ^athey do not cry out to Me in their heartWhen they wail on their beds;For the sake of grain and new wine they ¹^,^bgather together as sojourners;They ^cdepart from Me.¹⁵Although I disciplined and strengthened their arms,Yet they ^adevise evil against Me.¹⁶They turn, but not ¹upward;They are like a ^adeceitful bow;Their princes will fall by the swordBecause of the ²^,^bindignation of their tongue.This will be their ^cscoffing in the land of Egypt.