Hosea

 1 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will ^aheal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

 2 After two days will he ^arevive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his ^bsight.

 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 ^alatter and former rain unto the earth.

 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 ^adew it goeth away.

 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have ^aslain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

 6 For ^aI desired ^bmercy, and not sacrifice; and the ^cknowledge of God more than burnt ^dofferings.

 7 But they like ^amen have ^btransgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder ^ain the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

 10 I have seen an ^ahorrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.