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HOSEA
- 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.
- After two days will he revive us:
- In the third day he will raise us up,
- And we shall live in his sight.
- 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.
- O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
- O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
- For your goodness is as a morning cloud,
- And as the early dew it goeth away.
- Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets;
- I have slain them by the words of my mouth:
- And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
- For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;
- And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- But they like men have transgressed the covenant:
- There have they dealt treacherously against me.
- Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity,
- And is polluted with blood.
- And as troops of robbers wait for a man,
- So the company of priests murder in the way by consent:
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