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Osee 6
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.
2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.
3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.
5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.
- Osee 6:1 in modern BiblesCCC 2787
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- CCC 2787 “When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the…”
- Osee 6:3 in modern BiblesCCC 2787
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- CCC 2787 “When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the…”
- Osee 6:4 in modern BiblesCCC 2787
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- CCC 2787 “When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the…”
- Osee 6:5 in modern BiblesCCC 2787
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- CCC 2787 “When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the…”
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- CCC 589 “Jesus gave scandal above all when he identified his merciful conduct toward sinners with God's own attitude toward them. He went so…”
- CCC 2100 “Outward sacrifice, to be genuine, must be the expression of spiritual sacrifice: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...." The…”
- CCC 2787 “When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the…”
“As God, when teaching them His will in Hosea the prophet, said, "I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book IV, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XVII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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