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| [1]`Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up. |
[1]THEY shall say, Come, let us return and go to the LORD who has smitten us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind us up. |
| [2]He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him. |
[2]After two days he will revive us, and on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his presence. |
| [3]And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.' |
[3]Then shall we know to follow after the knowledge of the LORD; his going forth is prepared as the dawn; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the spring rain which waters the earth |
| [4]What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going. |
[4]O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away. |
| [5]Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth. |
[5]Therefore have I cut off the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth; and my judgments shall go forth as the light. |
| [6]For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings. |
[6]For I desired mercy and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. |
| [7]And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me. |
[7]But they like men have transgressed my covenant; there have they dealt treacherously against me. |
| [8]Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood. |
[8]Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, and wallows in blood. Your strength is as that of a robber. |
| [9]And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done. |
[9]The priests have joined them on the way, and they have destroyed Shechem, because they have committed iniquities. |
| [10]In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel. |
[10]I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: there Ephraim committed whoredom, and Israel was defiled. |
| [11]Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people! |
[11]And you also, O Judah, set a day of harvest for yourself when I will bring back the captivity of my people |