6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.


In Context

3 And we know — we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain — sprinkling earth.'

4 What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness is as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early — going.

5 Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

8 Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

Hosea 6:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.