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Hosea 6:3-5
New Living Translation

3 Oh, that we might know the Lord!
    Let us press on to know him.
He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn
    or the coming of rains in early spring.”

4 “O Israel[a] and Judah,
    what should I do with you?” asks the Lord.
“For your love vanishes like the morning mist
    and disappears like dew in the sunlight.
5 I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces—
    to slaughter you with my words,
    with judgments as inescapable as light.

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  1. 6:4 Hebrew Ephraim, referring to the northern kingdom of Israel.
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Hosea 6:3-5
New International Version

3 Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,(A)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.(B)”

4 “What can I do with you, Ephraim?(C)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.(D)
5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth(E)—
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
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