Hosea

"There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. For they shall eat, but not have enough; because they have ceased obeying the Lord. They do not direct their deeds toward turning to their God, and they do not know the Lord. Therefore Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity; With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. Come, and let us return to the Lord, for He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight. Let us know, let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, like the latter and former rain to the earth. Hosea chapters 4, 5 & 6 excerpts