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“Come, and let us return to Yahuah. For He has torn, but He will heal us. He has struck, but He will bind us up.
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After two days He will revive us. On the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live before His face.
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And let us know; let us pursue the knowledge of Yahuah. His going forth is established like the dawn. And He shall come to us like the rain, like the latter rain that waters the earth.”
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“What shall I do with you, Efrayim? What shall I do with you, Yehudah? For your covenant-faithfulness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew that goes away.
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Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets. I have slain them by the Words of My mouth. And your Judgments go forth like light.
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For I desire Covenant-Faithfulness and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings.
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But they, like Adam, transgressed the Covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me.
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Gilad is a city of workers of crookedness, tracked with blood.
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And as bands of robbers lie in wait for an ish, so the company of kohenim murder along the way toward Shekhem. For they have committed deliberate wickedness.
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In the House of Yisra’el I have seen a horrible thing. There is the prostitution of Efrayim; Yisra’el has become unclean.
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Also for you, Yehudah, a harvest is appointed, when I return the captivity of My people.”