After two days will [a]he revive us, and in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

Then shall we have knowledge, and endeavor ourselves to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, and as the latter rain unto the earth.

O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? for [b]your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the morning dew it goeth away.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:2 Though he correct us from time to time, yet his help will not be far off, if we return to him.
  2. Hosea 6:4 You seem to have a certain holiness and repentance, but it is upon the sudden, and as a morning cloud.

After two days he will revive us;(A)
    on the third day(B) he will restore(C) us,
    that we may live in his presence.
Let 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,(D)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.(E)

“What can I do with you, Ephraim?(F)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.(G)

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