" 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.
2"He will arevive us after two days; He will braise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.
3"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."
4What 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.
5Therefore 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.
6For aI delight in loyalty brather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7But alike 1Adam they have btransgressed the covenant; There they have cdealt treacherously against Me.
8aGilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bbloody footprints.
9And as araiders wait for a man, So a band of priests bmurder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed 1 ccrime.
10In the house of Israel I have seen a ahorrible thing; Ephraim's bharlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11Also, O Judah, there is a aharvest appointed for you, When I brestore the fortunes of My people.