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[1]Come, and let us return to the Lord: for he hath spoiled, and he will heal us: he hath wounded us, and he will bind us up. |
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[2]After two days will he revive us, and in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
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[3]Then shall we have knowledge, and endeavor ourselves to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning, and he shall come unto us as the rain, and as the latter rain unto the earth. |
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[4]O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, how shall I entreat thee? For your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the morning dew it goeth away. |
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[5]Therefore have I cut down by the prophets: I have slain them by the words of my mouth, and thy judgments were 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 men have transgressed the covenant: there have they trespassed against me. |
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[8]Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. |
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[9]And as the thieves wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they work mischief. |
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[10]I have seen villainy in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim: Israel is defiled. |
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[11]Yea, Judah hath set a plant for thee, whiles I would return the captivity of my people. |