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CHAP. VI.
1. COme, and let us re∣turn unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heael us: he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2. After two daies will he revive us, in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain; as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
4. O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5. Therefore have I hewed them by the Prophets: I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth.
6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more the•• burnt offerings.
7. But, they like men, have transgressed the Covenant: there they have dealt trea∣cherously against me.
8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniqui∣ty, and is polluted with blood.
9. And as troups of rob∣bers wait for a man, so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdnesse.
10. I have seen an hor∣rible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whore∣dom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11. Also, O Iudah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the capti∣vity of my people.