| 6:1 | 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. |
| 6:2 | After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
| 6:3 | 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. |
| 6:4 | 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. |
| 6:5 | 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. |
| 6:6 | For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| 6:6 | 我喜愛良善〔或作憐恤〕、不喜愛祭祀、喜愛認識 神、勝於燔祭。 |
| 6:6 | 我喜爱良善（或作怜恤），不喜爱祭祀，喜爱认识神，胜于燔祭。 |
| 1sa:15:22 | And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. |
| pro:21:3 | To do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice. |
| ecc:5:1 | Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. |
| jer:22:16 | He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD. |
| jhn:17:3 | And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. |
| psm:50:8 | I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. |
| psm:50:9 | I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. |
| isa:1:11 | To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. |
| mic:6:8 | He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? |
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| 6:7 | But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| 6:8 | Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
| 6:9 | And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. |
| 6:10 | I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
| 6:11 | Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people. |
