Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
1 The people say, "Let's return to the Lord! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he?
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“Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
2 In two or three days he will revive us, and we will live in his presence.
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After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
3 Let us try to know the Lord. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth."
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Let us acknowledge the LORD; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
4 But the Lord says, "Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day.
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“What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.
5 That is why I have sent my prophets to you with my message of judgment and destruction. What I want from you is plain and clear:
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Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.
6 I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.
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For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 "But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.
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As at Adam, they have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.
8 Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers.
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Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.
9 The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately!
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As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.
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I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
11 "And as for you, people of Judah, I have set a time to punish you also for what you are doing.
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“Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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