A call to repentance
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📚✭“Come, and let us returnto the LORD;
for he has torn us,
but he will heal us. He has struck us,
but he will bind up our wounds.
2 📚After two days he will revive us;
on the third day✭ he will raise✭ us up,
and we will live in his sight.
3 📚Then we will know✭ the LORD,
if we press on✭ to know him.
His coming is as certain as the morning,
and he will come✭ to us like the rain,
like the latter and former
rain to the earth”.
Further charges against Israel
4 📚“O Ephraim, what shall
I✭ do with you?
O Judah, what shall I do
with you?
For your goodness is like a
morning cloud,
and it goes away like
the early dew.
5 📚✭Therefore I have cut them down
by the prophets,
I have slain them by the words
of my mouth.
And judgments on you are like
light going forth.
6 📚✭For I delight in mercy,
and not sacrifice,
and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings.
7 📚But like men✭ they have transgressed
the covenant.
There they have dealt treacherously
against me.
8 📚Gilead✭ is a city of evildoers,
and is defiled with blood.
9 📚And as bands of robbers lie
in wait for a man,
so the company of priests✭
commit murder on the
way to Shechem;
they commit shameful deeds.
10 📚I have seen a horrible thing
in the house of Israel.
There is the prostitution of Ephraim,
Israel is defiled.
11 📚Also, O Judah,
there is a harvest appointed for you,
when I bring back my people from captivity✭.