Hosea 6:4-11
New International Version
4 “What can I do with you, Ephraim?(A)
What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
like the early dew that disappears.(B)
5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
I killed you with the words of my mouth(C)—
then my judgments go forth like the sun.[a](D)
6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,(E)
and acknowledgment(F) of God rather than burnt offerings.(G)
7 As at Adam,[b] they have broken the covenant;(H)
they were unfaithful(I) to me there.
8 Gilead is a city of evildoers,(J)
stained with footprints of blood.
9 As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(K)
so do bands of priests;
they murder(L) on the road to Shechem,
carrying out their wicked schemes.(M)
10 I have seen a horrible(N) thing in Israel:
There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
Israel is defiled.(O)
11 “Also for you, Judah,
a harvest(P) is appointed.
“Whenever I would restore the fortunes(Q) of my people,
Hosea 6:4-11
King James Version
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 dew it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed 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 in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen an horrible 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.
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