Hosea 6

New International Version

Israel Unrepentant

6 “Come, let us return^(A) to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces^(B)
    but he will heal us;^(C)
he has injured us
    but he will bind up our wounds.^(D)
²After two days he will revive us;^(E)
    on the third day^(F) he will restore^(G) us,
    that we may live in his presence.
³Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,^(H)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.^(I)”

⁴“What can I do with you, Ephraim?^(J)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.^(K)
⁵Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth^(L)—
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.^[a]^(M)
⁶For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,^(N)
    and acknowledgment^(O) of God rather than burnt offerings.^(P)
⁷As at Adam,^[b] they have broken the covenant;^(Q)
    they were unfaithful^(R) to me there.
⁸Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(S)
    stained with footprints of blood.
⁹As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,^(T)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder^(U) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.^(V)
¹⁰I have seen a horrible^(W) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.^(X)

¹¹“Also for you, Judah,
a harvest^(Y) is appointed.

“Whenever I would restore the fortunes^(Z) of my people,

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Footnotes

Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings

Hebrews 3:12-19

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¹²See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^(A) ¹³But encourage one another daily,^(B) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^(C) ¹⁴We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(D) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^(E) ¹⁵As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.”^[a]^(F)

¹⁶Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^(G) ¹⁷And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies perished in the wilderness?^(H) ¹⁸And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest^(I) if not to those who disobeyed?^(J) ¹⁹So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.^(K)