Chapter 6. Come and Let Us return to the Lord For he has torn but he will heal us He has stricken but he will bind us up After two days he will revive us On the third day he will raise us up That we may live in his sight Let us know Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord His going forth is established as the Morning He will come to us like the rain like The latter and former Reign to the Earth Oh Ephraim what shall I do to you Oh Judah what shall I do to you For your faithfulness is like a morning Cloud and like the early Dew it goes Away Therefore I have hewned them by the Prophets I have slain them by the words Of my mouth And your judgments are like light that Goes forth For I desire mercy and not sacrifice And the knowledge of God more than burnt Offerings But like men they transgressed the Covenant There they dealt treacherously with me Gilead is a city of evildoers and Defiled with blood As bands of robbers lie and wait for a Man So the company of priests murder on the
Way to shechem Surely they commit lewdness I have seen a horrible thing in the House of Israel There is the Harlot tree of Ephraim Israel is defiled Also o Judah a harvest is appointed for You when I return the captives of my People