1   
Come, and let vs returne vnto the Lord: for hee hath torne, and hee will heale vs: he hath smitten, and he will binde vs vp.

2   
^noteAfter two daies will he reuiue vs, in the third day he will raise vs vp, and we shall liue in his sight.

3   
Then shal we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared, as the morning; ∧ he shall come vnto vs, as the raine; as the latter and former raine vnto the earth.

4   
¶ O Ephraim, what shall I doe vnto thee? O Iudah, what shall I do vnto thee? for your ^note goodnesse is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

5   
Therefore haue I shewed them by the Prophets: I haue slaine them by the wordes of my mouth, ^note and thy Mercy preferred. iudgements are as the light that goeth foorth.

6   
For I desired ^note mercie, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more then burnt offerings.

7   
But they ^note like men haue transgressed the Couenant: there haue they dealt treacherously against me.

8   
Gilead is a city of them that worke iniquitie; and is ^note polluted with blood.

9   
And as troupes of robbers waite for a man, so the company of priestes murther in the way ^note by consent: for they commit ^note lewdnesse.

10   
I haue seene an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredome of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11   
Also O Iudah, hee hath set an haruest for thee, when I returned the captiuitie of my people. 869

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