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CHAP. VI.

1 An exhortation to repentance. 4 A complaint of their vntowardnesse, and iniquitie.

¹Come, and let vs returne vnto the Lord: for hee hath torne, and hee will heale vs: he hath smitten, and he will binde vs vp.

²After two daies will he reuiue vs, in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.²

³Then shal we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared, as the morning; & he shall come vnto vs, as the raine; as the latter and former raine vnto the earth.

⁴¶ O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do vnto thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.⁴

Mercy preferred.

⁵Therefore haue I shewed them by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, and thy iudgements are as the light that goeth foorth.⁵

⁶For I desired mercie, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more then burnt offerings.⁶

⁷But they like men haue transgressed the Couenant: there haue they dealt treacherously against me.⁷

⁸Gilead is a city of them that worke iniquitie; and is polluted with blood.⁸

⁹And as troupes of robbers waite for a man, so the company of priestes murther in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse.⁹

¹⁰I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

¹¹Also O Iudah, hee hath set an haruest for thee, when I returned the captiuitie of my people.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Hosea Chapter 6

² 1.Cor.15. 4.
⁴ Or, mercy, or, kindnesse.
⁵ Or, that thy iudgements might be, &c.
⁶ Matth.9. 13. and 10. 7. eccles. 4. 17. 1.sam. 15.22.
⁷ Or, like Adam.
⁸ Or, cunning for blood.
⁹ Hebr. with one shoulder. Or, to Sichem. , Or, enormitie.

* Courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania