Come, <H3212> and let us return <H7725> unto the LORD: <H3068> for he hath torn, <H2963> and he will heal <H7495> us; he hath smitten, <H5221> and he will bind us up. <H2280>
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After two days <H3117> will he revive <H2421> us: in the third <H7992> day <H3117> he will raise us up, <H6965> and we shall live <H2421> in his sight. <H6440>
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Then shall we know, <H3045> [if] we follow <H7291> on to know <H3045> the LORD: <H3068> his going forth <H4161> is prepared <H3559> as the morning; <H7837> and he shall come <H0935> unto us as the rain, <H1653> as the latter <H4456> [and] former rain <H3384> unto the earth. <H0776>
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O Ephraim, <H0669> what shall I do <H6213> unto thee? O Judah, <H3063> what shall I do <H6213> unto thee? for your goodness <H2617> [is] as a morning <H1242> cloud, <H6051> and as the early <H7925> dew <H2919> it goeth away. <H1980>
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Therefore have I hewed <H2672> [them] by the prophets; <H5030> I have slain <H2026> them by the words <H0561> of my mouth: <H6310> and thy judgments <H4941> [are as] the light <H0216> [that] goeth forth. <H3318>
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For I desired <H2654> mercy, <H2617> and not sacrifice; <H2077> and the knowledge <H1847> of God <H0430> more than burnt offerings. <H5930>
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But they like men <H0120> have transgressed <H5674> the covenant: <H1285> there have they dealt treacherously <H0898> against me.
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Gilead <H1568> [is] a city <H7151> of them that work <H6466> iniquity, <H0205> [and is] polluted <H6121> with blood. <H1818>
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And as troops <H1416> of robbers wait <H2442> for a man, <H0376> [so] the company <H2267> of priests <H3548> murder <H7523> in the way <H1870> by consent: <H7926> <H7927> for they commit <H6213> lewdness. <H2154>
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I have seen <H7200> an horrible thing <H8186> in the house <H1004> of Israel: <H3478> there [is] the whoredom <H2184> of Ephraim, <H0669> Israel <H3478> is defiled. <H2930>
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Also, O Judah, <H3063> he hath set <H7896> an harvest <H7105> for thee, when I returned <H7725> the captivity <H7622> of my people. <H5971>