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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/hosea/6.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>A Call to Repentance</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Hos-6-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Come, and let us return to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-1">For He has torn, but He will heal us;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-1">He has stricken, but He will <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>bind us up.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>After two days He will revive us;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-2">On the third day He will raise us up,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-2">That we may live in His sight.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Let us know,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-3">Let us pursue the knowledge of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-3">His going forth is established as the morning;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-3">He will come to us like the rain,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-3">Like the latter <i>and</i> former rain to the earth.</span></p></div> <h3> Impenitence of Israel and Judah</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text Hos-6-4"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-4">O Judah, what shall I do to you?</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-4">For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-4">And like the early dew it goes away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Therefore I have hewn <i>them</i> by the prophets,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-5">I have slain them by the words of My mouth;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-5">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>your judgments <i>are like</i> light <i>that</i> goes forth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For I desire mercy<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span> and not sacrifice,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-6">And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“But like <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>men they transgressed the covenant;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-7">There they dealt treacherously with Me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Gilead <i>is</i> a city of evildoers</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-8"><i>And</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>defiled with blood.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-9"><i>So</i> the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-9">Surely they commit lewdness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-10">There <i>is</i> the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>harlotry of Ephraim;</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-10">Israel is defiled.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/hosea/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,</span><br /><span class="text Hos-6-11">When I return the captives of My people.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22169a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:1">Hosea 6:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Bandage</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22173b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:5">Hosea 6:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the judgments on you</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22174c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:6">Hosea 6:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>faithfulness</i> or <i>loyalty</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22175d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:7">Hosea 6:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Adam</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22176e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:8">Hosea 6:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>foot-tracked</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22178f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Hosea 6:10">Hosea 6:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Spiritual adultery</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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