| 1 ¶ Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
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| 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
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| 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
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| 4 ¶ O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness1 is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
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| 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and2 thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
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| 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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| 7 But they like men3 have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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| 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted4 with blood.
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| 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by5 consent: for they commit lewdness.6
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| 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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| 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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