6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 
6:1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 

6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day will he raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 

6:3 Then shall we know, {if} we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he will come to us as the rain, as the latter {and} former rain to the earth. 
6:3 Then shall we know, {if} we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter {and} former rain to the earth. 

6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness {is} as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 
6:4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to thee? O Judah, what shall I do to thee? for your goodness {is} as the morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 

6:5 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. 
6:5 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. 

6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. 
6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 

6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 
6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 

6:8 Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is} polluted with blood. 
6:8 Gilead {is} a city of them that work iniquity, {and is} polluted with blood. 

6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, {so} the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 
6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, {so} the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 

6:10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the prostitution of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 
6:10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there {is} the harlotry of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 

6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. 
6:11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.