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.

1 In tribulatione sua mane consurgent ad me:
Venite, et revertamur ad Dominum,

2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

2 quia ipse cepit, et sanabit nos;
percutiet, et curabit nos.

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.

3 Vivificabit nos post duos dies;
in die tertia suscitabit nos,
et vivemus in conspectu ejus.
Sciemus, sequemurque ut cognoscamus Dominum:
quasi diluculum præparatus est egressus ejus,
et veniet quasi imber nobis temporaneus et serotinus terræ.

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.

4 Quid faciam tibi, Ephraim?
quid faciam tibi, Juda?
misericordia vestra quasi nubes matutina,
et quasi ros mane pertransiens.

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.

5 Propter hoc dolavi in prophetis;
occidi eos in verbis oris mei:
et judicia tua quasi lux egredientur.

6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

6 Quia misericordiam volui, et non sacrificium;
et scientiam Dei plus quam holocausta.

7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

7 Ipsi autem sicut Adam transgressi sunt pactum:
ibi prævaricati sunt in me.

8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

8 Galaad civitas operantium idolum,
supplantata sanguine.

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.

9 Et quasi fauces virorum latronum,
particeps sacerdotum, in via interficientium pergentes de Sichem:
quia scelus operati sunt.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

10 In domo Israël vidi horrendum:
ibi fornicationes Ephraim,
contaminatus est Israël.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

11 Sed et Juda, pone messem tibi,
cum convertero captivitatem populi mei.