“Come! Let’s 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,
and he will heal us;
he has injured us,
and 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,
and we will live before him.
Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Jer 24:7Hos 14:5Pro 2:1-5Psa 72:6Php 3:13-15Mat 13:11Rev 22:16Zec 10:1
Let’s press on to know the LORD.
As surely as the sun rises,
the LORD will appear.
He will come to us like the rain,
like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
“Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Hos 11:8Hos 13:3Psa 78:34-37Psa 106:12-132Pe 2:20-22Luk 13:7-9Mat 13:21Luk 19:41-42
Judah, what shall I do to you?
For your love is like a morning cloud,
and like the dew that disappears early.
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; Jer 23:29Jer 1:10Heb 4:12Jer 5:14Isa 11:4Psa 119:120Rev 2:16Rom 2:5
I killed them with the words of my mouth.
Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; Mat 9:13Mat 12:7Pro 21:31Sa 15:22Amo 5:21Ecc 5:1Isa 1:11Jer 22:16
and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. Gen 3:11Hos 5:7Hos 8:1Jer 9:6Job 31:332Ki 17:15Ezk 16:59-61Gen 3:6
They were unfaithful to me there.
Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; Hos 12:11Hos 4:2Mic 7:21Ki 2:52Sa 20:82Sa 3:27Act 23:12-15Act 25:3
it is stained with blood.
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, Pro 1:11-19Zep 3:3Hos 5:1Hos 7:1Ezk 22:27Ezk 22:9Ezr 8:31Jer 11:9
so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
committing shameful crimes.
In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. Hos 5:3Jer 23:14Ezk 23:5Jer 3:6Jer 5:30-311Ki 12:81Ki 15:302Ki 17:7
There is prostitution in Ephraim.
Israel is defiled.
“Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, Jol 3:13Job 42:10Jer 51:33Mic 4:12Rev 14:15Psa 126:1Zep 2:7
when I restore the fortunes of my people.