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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Come, let us return to the LORD. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2In just a short time he will restore us, so that we may live in his presence. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Oh, that we might know the LORD! Let us press on to know him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.” |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4“O Israel and Judah, what should I do with you?” asks the LORD. “For your love vanishes like the morning mist and disappears like dew in the sunlight. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5I sent my prophets to cut you to pieces— to slaughter you with my words, with judgments as inescapable as light. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But like Adam, you broke my covenant and betrayed my trust. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8“Gilead is a city of sinners, tracked with footprints of blood. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Priests form bands of robbers, waiting in ambush for their victims. They murder travelers along the road to Shechem and practice every kind of sin. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Yes, I have seen something horrible in Ephraim and Israel: My people are defiled by prostituting themselves with other gods! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11“O Judah, a harvest of punishment is also waiting for you, though I wanted to restore the fortunes of my people. |
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