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22 Return, O faithless children,
    I will heal your faithlessness.

“Here we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.(A)

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A Plea for Repentance

14 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
    for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.(A)

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Assurance of Forgiveness

I will heal their disloyalty;
    I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.(A)

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And I will put this third into the fire,
    refine them as one refines silver,
    and test them as gold is tested.
They will call on my name,
    and I will answer them.
I will say, ‘They are my people,’
    and they will say, ‘The Lord is our God.’ ”(A)

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Yet I have been the Lord your God
    ever since the land of Egypt;
you know no God but me,
    and besides me there is no savior.(A)

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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.

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Afterward the Israelites shall return and seek the Lord their God and David their king; they shall come in awe to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.(A)

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I am going to bring it recovery and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them abundance[a] of prosperity and security.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 33.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain

18 Indeed, I heard Ephraim pleading:
“You disciplined me, and I took the discipline;
    I was like an untrained calf.
Bring me back; let me come back,
    for you are the Lord my God.(A)

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17 For I will restore health to you,
    and your wounds I will heal,
            says the Lord,
because they have called you an outcast:
    “It is Zion; no one cares for her!”(A)

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O Ephraim, what have I[a] to do with idols?
    It is I who answer and look after you.[b]
I am like an evergreen cypress;
    your fruit comes from me.(A)

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  1. 14.8 Or What more has Ephraim
  2. 14.8 Heb him

By expulsion,[a] by exile you struggled against them;
    with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.(A)

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  1. 27.8 Meaning of Heb uncertain