Hosea 5:15-6:6

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁵I will return again to my place,
until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
and in their distress they seek me, saying,

A Call to Repentance

6 “Come, let us return to the Lord;
for he has torn, that he may heal us;
    he has stricken, and he will bind us up.
²After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
³Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;
    his going forth is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
    as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Impenitence of Israel and Judah

⁴What shall I do with you, O E′phraim?
    What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
    like the dew that goes early away.
⁵Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,
    I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment goes forth as the light.^[a]
⁶For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.

Footnotes

Hosea 6:5 Gk Syr: Heb thy judgment goes forth

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