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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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"Come, let us return to the Lord; for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck down, and he will bind us up.
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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After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
3 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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Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth."
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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What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? Your love is like a morning cloud, like the dew that goes away early.
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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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have killed them by the words of my mouth, and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
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Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with blood.
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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As robbers lie in wait for someone, so the priests are banded together; they murder on the road to Shechem, they commit a monstrous crime.
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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In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's whoredom is there, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed. When I would restore the fortunes of my people,
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