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A Call to Repentance

“Come, let us return to the Lord,
    for it is he who has torn, and he will heal us;
    he has struck down, and he will bind us up.(A)
After two days he will revive us;
    on the third day he will raise us up,
    that we may live before him.
Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;
    his appearing is as sure as the dawn;
he will come to us like the showers,
    like the spring rains that water the earth.”(B)

Impenitence of Israel and Judah

What shall I do with you, O Ephraim?
    What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
    like the dew that goes away early.(C)
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
    and my[a] judgment goes forth as the light.(D)
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(E)

But at[b] Adam they transgressed the covenant;
    there they dealt faithlessly with me.
Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    tracked with blood.
As robbers lie in wait[c] for someone,
    so the priests are banded together;[d]
they murder on the road to Shechem;
    they commit a monstrous crime.(F)
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    Ephraim’s prostitution is there; Israel is defiled.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.5 Gk Syr: Heb your
  2. 6.7 Cn: Heb like
  3. 6.9 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 6.9 Syr: Heb are a company