I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver. 005:015 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly." 006:001 "Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds. 006:002 After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him. 006:003 Let us acknowledge Yahweh. Let us press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth." 006:004 "Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early. 006:005 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning. 006:006 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 006:007 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there. 006:008 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood. 006:009 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes. 006:010 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. Israel is defiled. 006:011 "Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, when I restore the fortunes of my people. 007:001 When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. 007:002 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face. 007:003 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies. 007:004 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened. 007:005 On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers. 007:006 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire. 007:007 They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me. 007:008 Ephraim, he mixes himself among the nations. Ephraim is a pancake not turned over. 007:009 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't