What does Hosea 6:4-28 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodnessa is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
Therefore 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.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they like menb have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is pollutedc with blood.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.