Israel Chastised
“aCome, let us return to Yahweh.
For bHe has torn us, but cHe will heal us;
He has struck us, but He will dbandage us.
2 He will amake us alive 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 pursue to know Yahweh.
His bgoing forth is established as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the crain,
Like the late rain watering the earth.”
4 What shall I do with you, O aEphraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your lovingkindness is like a bmorning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have ahewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have killed them by the bwords of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For aI delight in lovingkindness brather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But alike Adam they have btrespassed against the covenant;
There they have cdealt treacherously against Me.
8 aGilead is a city of workers of iniquity,
With a track of bblood.
9 And as araiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests bmurder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed clewdness.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen an aappalling thing;
Ephraim’s bharlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a aharvest set for you
When I brestore the fortunes of My people,