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Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 “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.
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`Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.
2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us, that we may live in his presence.
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He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.
3 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.”
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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 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.
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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 cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth— then my judgments go forth like the sun.
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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 I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
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For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
7 As at Adam, they have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.
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And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.
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Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
9 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.
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And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
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In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
11 “Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,
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Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!
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