S2E71 Hosea 6:1-11

Hosea 6:1-11A Confession of Trust6  “In their affliction they will rise up early toward me, saying, ‘Let us go and return to the Lord, our God, because he has snatched away, and he will heal us. He will strike, and he will bandage us. 2  He will restore us to health after two days; on the third day we will rise and live before him, 3  and we will know; we will seek to know the Lord. Like the sure-to-come dawn we will find him, and he will come to us like the early and late rain comes to the earth.’ ” Israel’s Transgressions4  “What will I do with you, O Ephraim? What will I do with you, O Judah? Your mercy is like an early morning cloud, and like an early dew that is going away. 5  On account of this, I cut off your prophets; I killed them with a word from my mouth, and my judgment will go out like light. 6  Because I want mercy rather than sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings. 7  But they are like a person breaking a treaty; there he despised me. 8  Gilead is a city doing vain things, stirring up water. 9  And your strength is that of a pirate man. Priests hid the way. They killed Shechem, because they did lawlessness. 10  In the house of Israel I saw a horrible thing. There was the fornication of Ephraim; Israel and Judah were defiled. 11  Begin to reap for yourself when I return the captives of my people,   when I heal Israel.
Rick Brannan, Ken M. Penner et al., The Lexham English Septuagint, Second Edition (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2020), Ho 6:1–11