n°28 / Hosea 6 :

1Come, and let us return unto the LORD : for he hath torn, and he will heal us ; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
2After two days will he revive us : in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
3Then 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.
4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee ? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee ? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets ; I have slain them by the words of my mouth : and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice ; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent : for they commit lewdness.
10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel : there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.