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Chapter 6
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1
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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. |
2
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After two days will he revive us: in the third day
he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. |
3
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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. |
4
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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. |
5
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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. |
6
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God more than burnt offerings. |
7
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But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there
have they dealt treacherously against me. |
8
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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is
polluted with blood. |
9
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company
of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit
lewdness. |
10
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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel:
there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. |
11
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Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when
I returned the captivity of my people. |
