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us;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has struck down, and he will bind us up.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>After two days he will revive us;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">on the third day he will raise us up,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that we may live before him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Let us know, let us press on to know the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">his appearing is as sure as the dawn;</span></span><br /><span class="text">he will come to us like the showers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like the spring rains that water the earth.”</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Impenitence of Israel and Judah</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">What shall I do with you, O Judah?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Your love is like a morning cloud,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">like the dew that goes away early.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I have killed them by the words of my mouth,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26445a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> judgment goes forth as the light.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But at<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26447b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> Adam they transgressed the covenant;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">there they dealt faithlessly with me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Gilead is a city of evildoers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">tracked with blood.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>As robbers lie in wait<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26449c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> for someone,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so the priests are banded together;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-26449d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">they murder on the road to Shechem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they commit a monstrous crime.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Ephraim’s whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.</span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">When I would restore the fortunes of my people,</span></p> </div><A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 6:5">Hosea 6:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>your</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 6:7">Hosea 6:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>like</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 6:9">Hosea 6:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Hosea 6:9">Hosea 6:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Syr: Heb <i>are a company</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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