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“Come, let us return to the LORD . He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.
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In just a short time he will restore us, so that we may live in his presence.
3
Oh, that we might know the LORD ! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.”
4
“O Israel and Judah, what should I do with you?” asks the LORD . “For your love vanishes like the morning mist and disappears like dew in the sunlight.
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I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces— to slaughter you with my words, with judgments as inescapable as light.