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The Prophecy
of Osee 6
In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come,
and let us return to the Lord:
For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike,
and he will cure us.
He will revive us after two days: on the third day he
will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We
shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know
the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning
light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter
rain to the earth.
What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do
to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and
as the dew that goeth away in the morning.
For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I
have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments
shall go forth as the light.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge
of God more than holocausts.
But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant,
there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with
blood.
And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire
with the priests who murder in the way those that pass
out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:
the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall
bring back captivity of my people.
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