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6 crying, “Let us return to the Eternal,
for he has torn us, he will heal us,
he has wounded, he will bind us up:
2 in a couple of days he will revive us,
and on the third day he will raise us
to live under his care.
3 Let us know the Eternal, let us make haste to know him,
for he will come to us, sure as the dawn,
come to us like the winter-rain,
like the spring-rain watering the land.”
4 But Ephraim, what can I do with you?
Judah, what can I do with you?
This love of yours is like a morning cloud,
like dew that soon will disappear.
5 So I instruct them by my words,
this precept shines out plain:
6 love I desire, not sacrifice,
knowledge of God, not any offerings.
7 Yet at Adam-town they broke their bond,
and there they played me false.
8 Gilead is a gang of villains,
a town of bloody footprints,
9 with bandits in full force;
and on the road to Shechem
a party of priests murder,
practise crime!
10 At Bethel I have seen a horrible sight,
Ephraim playing the harlot,
Israel staining herself;
11 and Judah too conspires against me.
When I would turn the fortunes of my people,