Bible in Basic English

Hosea 5

The Book of Hosea

Return to Index

Chapter 6

1

  Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help. 

 


2

  After two days he will give us life, and on the third day he will make us get up, and we will be living before him. 

 


3

  And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth. 

 


4

  O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away. 

 


5

  So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth; 

 


6

  Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings. 

 


7

  But like a man, they have gone against the agreement; there they were false to me. 

 


8

  Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood. 

 


9

  And like a band of thieves waiting for a man, so are the priests watching secretly the way of those going quickly to Shechem, for they are working with an evil design. 

 


10

  In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean; 

 


11

  And Judah has put up disgusting images for himself. 

 


Hosea 7

 

 

 

 

HTMLBible Software - Public Domain Software by johnhurt.com

 


Other Items are Available At These Sites: