• Israel Chastised

  • 1 “Come, let us return to Yahweh. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has struck us, but He will bandage us.
  • 2 “He will make us alive after two days; He will raise us up on the third day, That we may live before Him.
  • 3 “So let us know, let us pursue to know Yahweh. His going forth is established as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, Like the late rain watering the earth.”
  • 4 What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your lovingkindness is like a morning cloud And like the dew which goes away early.
  • 5 Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have killed them by the words of My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
  • 6 For I delight in lovingkindness rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  • 7 But like Adam they have trespassed against the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
  • 8 Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, With a track of blood.
  • 9 And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed lewdness.
  • 10 In the house of Israel I have seen an appalling thing; Ephraim’s harlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.
  • 11 Also, O Judah, there is a harvest set for you When I restore the fortunes of My people,