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“Come, and we turn back to YHWH, || For He has torn, and He heals us, || He strikes, and He binds us up.
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He revives us after two days, || In the third day He raises us up, || And we live before Him.
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And we know—we pursue to know YHWH, || His going forth is prepared as the dawn, || And He comes in as a shower to us, || As spring rain [and] autumn rain to the earth.”
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“What do I do to you, O Ephraim? What do I do to you, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, || And as dew rising early—going.
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Therefore I have hewed by prophets, || I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, || And My judgments go forth to the light.
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For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, || And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
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And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, || There they dealt treacherously against Me.
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Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, || Slippery from blood.
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And as bands wait for a man, || A company of priests murder—the way to Shechem, || For they have done wickedness.
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In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, || There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim—Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed to you, || In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!”
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