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.
02 After two days will he revive us: in the third
day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his
sight.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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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06 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and
the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
07 But they like men have transgressed the
covenant: there have they dealt treacherously
against me.
08 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity,
and is polluted with blood.
09 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so
the company of priests murder in the way by
consent: for they commit lewdness.
10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of
Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, 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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