Top of Page
Page Style
for he hath torn,
and he will heal us;
he hath smitten,
and he will bind us up.
2 After two days will he revive us:
in the third day he will raise us up,
and we shall live in his sight.
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 latter 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 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.
7:1 When I would have healed Israel,
then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered,
and the wickedness of Samaria: