The Response to God’s Rebuke
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ACome, let us return to the Lord.
For BHe has torn us, but CHe will heal us;
He has 1wounded us, but He will Dbandage us.
“He will Arevive us after two days;
He will Braise us up on the third day,
That we may live before Him.
“So let us Aknow, let us press on to know the Lord.
His Bgoing forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the Crain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”
What shall I do with you, O AEphraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your 1loyalty is like a Bmorning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
Therefore I have Ahewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the Bwords of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
For AI delight in loyalty Brather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
But Alike 1Adam they have Btransgressed the covenant;
There they have Cdealt treacherously against Me.
AGilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with Bbloody footprints.
And as Araiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests Bmurder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed 1Ccrime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a Ahorrible thing;
Ephraim’s Bharlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11  Also, O Judah, there is a Aharvest appointed for you,
When I Brestore the fortunes of My people.
A 6:1 Jer 50:4, 5 B 6:1 Deut 32:39; Hos 5:14 C 6:1 Jer 30:17; Hos 14:4 1 6:1 Lit struck D 6:1 Is 30:26 A 6:2 Ps 30:5 B 6:2 1 Cor 15:4 A 6:3 Is 2:3; Mic 4:2 B 6:3 Ps 19:6; Mic 5:2 C 6:3 Job 29:23; Ps 72:6; Joel 2:23 A 6:4 Hos 7:1; 11:8 1 6:4 Or lovingkindness B 6:4 Ps 78:34-37; Hos 13:3 A 6:5 1 Sam 15:32, 33; Jer 1:10; 5:14 B 6:5 Jer 23:29 A 6:6 Matt 9:13; 12:7 B 6:6 Is 1:11 A 6:7 Job 31:33 1 6:7 Or men B 6:7 Hos 8:1 C 6:7 Hos 5:7 A 6:8 Hos 12:11 B 6:8 Hos 4:2 A 6:9 Hos 7:1 B 6:9 Jer 7:9, 10; Hos 4:2 1 6:9 Or lewdness C 6:9 Ezek 22:9; 23:27; Hos 2:10 A 6:10 Jer 5:30, 31; 23:14 B 6:10 Hos 5:3 A 6:11 Jer 51:33; Joel 3:13 B 6:11 Zeph 2:7