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Hosea 6
Israel’s short-lived and shallow repentance
1 ‘Come, let us return to Yahweh. He has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us; he has struck us down, but he will bandage our wounds;
2 after a day or two he will bring us back to life, on the third day he will raise us and we shall live in his presence.
6:3b he will come to us as showers come, like spring rains watering the earth.’
4 What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? This love of yours is like a morning cloud, like the dew that quickly disappears.
6:5a This is why I have torn them to pieces by the prophets, why I slaughtered them with the words from my mouth,
6 since what I want is love, not sacrifice; knowledge of God, not holocausts.
The past and present sins of Israel
7 But they have violated the covenant at Adam, they have proved unfaithful to me there.
8 Gilead is a town of evil-doers, full of bloody footprints.
9 Like so many robbers in ambush a band of priests commits murder on the road to Shechem-appalling behaviour, indeed!
10 I have seen horrors in Bethel; that is where Ephraim plays the whore and Israel defiles himself.
11 Judah, I intend a harvest for you, too, when I restore the fortunes of my people.