1 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. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 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.
4 ¶ 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. 5 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. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
1 in tribulatione sua mane consurgunt ad me
venite et revertamur ad Dominum
2 quia ipse cepit et sanabit nos percutiet et curabit nos
3 vivificabit nos post duos dies
in die tertia suscitabit nos et vivemus in conspectu eius
sciemus sequemurque ut cognoscamus Dominum
quasi diluculum praeparatus est egressus eius
et veniet quasi imber nobis temporaneus et serotinus terrae
4 quid faciam tibi Ephraim quid faciam tibi Iuda
misericordia vestra quasi nubes matutina
et quasi ros mane pertransiens
5 propter hoc dolavi in prophetis occidi eos in verbis oris mei
et iudicia tua quasi lux egredientur
6 quia misericordiam volui et non sacrificium
et scientiam Dei plus quam holocausta
7 ipsi autem sicut Adam transgressi sunt pactum
ibi praevaricati sunt in me
8 Galaad civitas operantium idolum
subplantata sanguine
9 et quasi fauces virorum latronum
particeps sacerdotum in via interficientium pergentes de Sychem
quia scelus operati sunt
10 in domo Israhel vidi horrendum ibi fornicationes Ephraim
contaminatus est Israhel
11 sed et Iuda pone messem tibi
cum convertero captivitatem populi mei