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Hosea 6 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

A Call to Repentance
Israel’s Insincere Repentance

Hos 6:1

Hos 6:1Come, and let us return to the LORD;
For He has torn, but He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.

Hos 6:2

Hos 6:2After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.

Hos 6:3

Hos 6:3Let us know,
Let us pursue the knowledge of the LORD.
His going forth is established as the morning;
He will come to us like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Impenitence of Israel and Judah

Hos 6:4

Hos 6:4“O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
O Judah, what shall I do to you?
For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,
And like the early dew it goes away.

Hos 6:5

Hos 6:5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,
I have slain them by the words of My mouth;
And your judgments are like light that goes forth.

Hos 6:6

Hos 6:6For I desire mercy and not sacrifice,
And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hos 6:7

Hos 6:7“But like men[fn] they transgressed the covenant;
There they dealt treacherously with Me.

Hos 6:8

Hos 6:8Gilead is a city of evildoers
And defiled with blood.

Hos 6:9

Hos 6:9As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,
So the company of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they commit lewdness.

Hos 6:10

Hos 6:10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:
There is the harlotry of Ephraim;
Israel is defiled.

Hos 6:11

Hos 6:11Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,
When I return the captives of My people.
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