The Unrepentance of Israel and Judah
Come, let us return to the LORD. Job 5:18Deu 32:391Sa 2:6Lam 3:40-41Hos 14:4Isa 2:3Isa 55:7Job 34:29
For He has torn us to pieces,
but He will heal us;
He has wounded us,
but He will bind up our wounds.
After two days He will revive us; 2Ki 20:51Co 15:4Ezk 37:11-13Isa 26:19Hos 13:14Psa 30:4-5Jhn 14:19Gen 17:18
on the third day He will raise us up,
that we may live in His presence.
So let us know— Jer 24:7Hos 14:5Pro 2:1-5Psa 72:6Php 3:13-15Mat 13:11Rev 22:16Zec 10:1
let us press on to know the LORD.
As surely as the sun rises,
He will appear;
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring showers that water the earth.
What shall I do with you, O Ephraim 1? Hos 11:8Hos 13:3Psa 78:34-37Psa 106:12-132Pe 2:20-22Luk 13:7-9Mat 13:21Luk 19:41-42
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your loyalty is like a morning mist,
like the early dew that vanishes.
Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets; Jer 23:29Jer 1:10Heb 4:12Jer 5:14Isa 11:4Psa 119:120Rev 2:16Rom 2:5
I have slain them by the words of My mouth,
and My judgments go forth like lightning.
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, 2 Mat 9:13Mat 12:7Pro 21:31Sa 15:22Amo 5:21Ecc 5:1Isa 1:11Jer 22:16
and the knowledge of God
rather than burnt offerings.
But they, like Adam, have transgressed 3the covenant; Gen 3:11Hos 5:7Hos 8:1Jer 9:6Job 31:332Ki 17:15Ezk 16:59-61Gen 3:6
there they were unfaithful to Me.
Gilead is a city of evildoers, Hos 12:11Hos 4:2Mic 7:21Ki 2:52Sa 20:82Sa 3:27Act 23:12-15Act 25:3
tracked with footprints of blood.
Like raiders who lie in ambush, Pro 1:11-19Zep 3:3Hos 5:1Hos 7:1Ezk 22:27Ezk 22:9Ezr 8:31Jer 11:9
so does a band of priests;
they murder on the way to Shechem;
surely they have committed atrocities.
In the house of Israel Hos 5:3Jer 23:14Ezk 23:5Jer 3:6Jer 5:30-311Ki 12:81Ki 15:302Ki 17:7
I have seen a horrible thing:
Ephraim practices prostitution there,
and Israel is defiled.
Also for you, O Judah, Jol 3:13Job 42:10Jer 51:33Mic 4:12Rev 14:15Psa 126:1Zep 2:7
a harvest is appointed,
when I restore
My people from captivity. 4