1: Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn,
and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. |
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2: After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will
raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
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Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his
going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the
rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. |
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4: O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do
unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew
it goeth away. |
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5: Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them
by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth
forth. |
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6: For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
God more than burnt offerings. |
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7: But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
they dealt treacherously against me. |
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8: Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted
with blood. |
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9: And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of
priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. |
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10: I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there
is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
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11: Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the captivity of my people. |