Josea chapter 6 Israel and Judah are unrepent.

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.

After two days, he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up that we may live before him.

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord, his going out as sure as the dawn, he will

come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.

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. 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. For I desire a steadfast

love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God,

rather than burnt offerings. But like Adam, they transgress the covenant. There they dealt faithlessly

with me. Gilead is a city of evildoers tracked with blood, as robbers lie in wait for a man.

So the priests ban together. They murder on the way to Shechem.

They commit villainy.

In the house of Israel, I have seen a horrible thing.

Ephraim's whoredom is there.

Israel is defiled.

For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed when I restore the fortunes of my people.

Josea Chapter 7 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,

but they do not consider that I remember all their evil.

Now their deeds surround them. They are before my face. By their evil, they make the king glad,

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