Hosea 5:15-7:2I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.[6:1]“Come, let us return to the LORD; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up.[2]After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.[3]Let us know; let us press on to know the LORD; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”[4]What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes early away.[5]Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.[6]For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.[7]But like Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.[8]Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.[9]As robbers lie in wait for a man, so the priests band together; they murder on the way to Shechem; they commit villainy.[10]In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there; Israel is defiled.[11]For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I restore the fortunes of my people,[7:1]when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.[2]But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.