Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 In their affliction they will rise early to me: Come, and let us return to the Lord.
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Let's return to the LORD. Even though he has torn us to pieces, he will heal us. Even though he has wounded us, he will bandage our wounds.
2 For he hath taken us, and he will heal us: he will strike, and he will cure us.
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After two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us so that we may live in his presence.
3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.
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Let's learn about the LORD. Let's get to know the LORD. He will come to us as sure as the morning comes. He will come to us like the autumn rains and the spring rains that water the ground.
4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning.
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"What should I do with you, Ephraim? What should I do with you, Judah? Your love is like fog in the morning. It disappears as quickly as the morning dew.
5 For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
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That is why I cut [you] down by sending the prophets. I killed you with the words from my mouth. My judgments shined on you like light.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
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I want your loyalty, not your sacrifices. I want you to know me, not to give me burnt offerings.
7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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"Like Adam, you rejected the promise. You were unfaithful to me.
8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
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Gilead is a city filled with troublemakers. It is stained with bloody footprints.
9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
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The priests are like gangs of robbers who lie in ambush for a person. They murder on the road to Shechem. Certainly, they have committed a crime.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
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"I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel. Ephraim is acting like a prostitute, and Israel is unclean.
11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.
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"Yet, Judah, I have set a harvest time for you when I bring my people back from captivity.
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