Chapter 6


 Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will aheal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

 After two days will he arevive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his bsight.

 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 alatter and former rain unto the earth.


 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have aslain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

 For aI desired bmercy, and not sacrifice; and the cknowledge of God more than burnt dofferings.

 But they like amen have btransgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.


 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder ain the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

 10 I have seen an ahorrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
