Holy Scripture
Hosea 6:7
A church father on this verse
“For to every one who has turned to God in truth and with a whole heart, the doors are open, and the thrice-glad Father receives his truly repentant child. And true repentance is to be no longer bound in the same sins for which he denounced death against himself, but to eradicate them completely from the soul. For on t…”
Source: Septuagint
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7But they are as a man transgressing a covenant:
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5Therefore have I mown down your prophets; I have slain them with the word of my mouth: and my judgment shall go forth as the light.
6For I will have mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.
— Hosea 6:7 —
8there the city Gilead despised me, working vanity, troubling water.
9And thy strength is that of a robber: the priests have hidden the way, they have murdered the people of Shechem; for they have wrought iniquity in the house of Israel.