{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Hosea",
 "chapter": 6,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "Come, 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "Then 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "O 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."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people."
  }
 ],
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 "blessing": "The Word is public domain. So is grace."
}