Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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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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 After two days will He revive us; on 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 so that we may live in his presence.
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'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 "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 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 Therefore have I hewn 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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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 burnt offerings.
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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 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
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Gilead is a city filled with troublemakers. It is stained with bloody footprints.
9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way by consent; for they commit lewdness.
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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; there is the whoredom of Ephraim, 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 Also, O Judah, he hath set a harvest for thee, when I returned My people from captivity.
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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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