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# Hosea 6

Hosea 6 is chapter 6 of 14 in the Book of Hosea. Here are all 11 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Affliction shall be a means to bring many to Christ, a complaint of the untowardness of the Jews. God loves mercy more than sacrifice.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Hosea 6 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In their tribulation, they will arise early to me. Come, let us return to the Lord.
2. For he has seized 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 will live in his sight. We will understand, and we will continue on, so that we may know the Lord. His landing place has been prepared like the first light of morning, and he will come to us like the early and the late rains of the land.
4. What am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? Your mercy is like the morning mist, and like the dew passing away in the morning.
5. Because of this, I have cut them with the prophets, I have slain them with the words of my mouth; and your opinions will depart like the light.
6. For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7. But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; in this, they have been dishonest with me.
8. Gilead is a city that manufactures idols; it has been tripped up by family relations.
9. And, like those who rob with skillful words, they, by conspiring with the priests, bring a death sentence to travelers on a pilgrimage from Shechem; for they have been performing evil deeds.
10. I have seen horrible things in the house of Israel; the fornications of Ephraim are there. Israel has been contaminated.
11. But you, Judah, set a harvest for yourself, while I reverse the captivity of my people.

## Hosea 6 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. In tribulatione sua mane consurgent 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 ejus. Sciemus, sequemurque ut cognoscamus Dominum: quasi diluculum præparatus est egressus ejus, et veniet quasi imber nobis temporaneus et serotinus terræ.
4. Quid faciam tibi, Ephraim? quid faciam tibi, Juda? misericordia vestra quasi nubes matutina, et quasi ros mane pertransiens.
5. Propter hoc dolavi in prophetis; occidi eos in verbis oris mei: et judicia 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 prævaricati sunt in me.
8. Galaad civitas operantium idolum, supplantata sanguine.
9. Et quasi fauces virorum latronum, particeps sacerdotum, in via interficientium pergentes de Sichem: quia scelus operati sunt.
10. In domo Israël vidi horrendum: ibi fornicationes Ephraim, contaminatus est Israël.
11. Sed et Juda, pone messem tibi, cum convertero captivitatem populi mei.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2787: "Our" Father ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 627: Jesus Christ Was Buried ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 589: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2100: "Him Only Shall You Serve" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 8: that is, undermined and brought to ruin, for shedding of blood: and, as it is signified in the following verse, for conspiring with the priests (of Bethel) like robbers, to murder in the way such as passed out of Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem. Or else supplanted with blood, signifies flowing in such manner with blood, as to suffer none to walk there without imbruing the soles of their feet in blood.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Mar 6, 2027: Saturday of the Third Week of Lent — First Reading, Hosea 6:1-6

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option).

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).