---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Hosea from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 6
verse_count: 11
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Hosea, chap. 6, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Hosea 6

*An exhortation to repentance..*

**1** Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and 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 sac-rifice; 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 a horrible thing intheh use of Israel; there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
**11** Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.