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A Call to Repentance
1Come,⚓ and let us return to the Lord;
For ⚓He has torn, but ⚓He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
2⚓After two days He will revive us;
On the third day He will raise us up,
That we may live in His sight.
3⚓Let us know,
Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord.
His going forth is established ⚓as the morning;
⚓He will come to us ⚓like the rain,
Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
Impenitence of Israel and Judah
4“O Ephraim, what shall I do to you?
O Judah, what shall I do to you?
For your faithfulness is like a morning cloud,
And like the early dew it goes away.
5Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,
I have slain them by ⚓the words of My mouth;
And your judgments are like light that goes forth.
6For I desire ⚓mercy and ⚓not sacrifice,
And the ⚓knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7“But like men they transgressed the covenant;
There they dealt treacherously with Me.
8⚓Gilead is a city of evildoers
And defiled with blood.
9As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,
So the company of ⚓priests ⚓murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they commit ⚓lewdness.
10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel:
There is the harlotry of Ephraim;
Israel is defiled.
11Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you,
When I return the captives of My people.
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Cov Yixayee tsis kam ntxeev dua siab
1“Los maj, peb cia li rov mus cuag Yawmsaub,
rau qhov nws muab peb dua pes rhe lawm,
tiamsis nws yuav kho peb.
Nws nplawm lawm,
tiamsis nws yuav qhwv peb tej qhov txhab.
2Tshuav ob hnub nws yuav ua
rau peb rov muaj zog,
hnub uas peb nws yuav muab peb tsa sawv,
kom peb thiaj tau nyob ntawm nws xubntiag.
3Cia peb paub nws,
cia peb kub siab kawm paub Yawmsaub,
nws yeej yuav tshwm los tiag tiag
yam li tus duab kaj ntug.
Nws yuav los txog peb yam li tej pluav nag,
yam li cov nag hauv xyoo
uas ntub lub ntiajteb.”
4“Efa‑i 'e, kuv yuav ua li cas rau koj?
Yuda 'e, kuv yuav ua li cas rau koj nev?
Qhov uas koj npuab kuv
zoo yam li tej huab pw hav thaum kaj ntug,
zoo li tej dej lwg uas ploj tag
thaum sawv ntxov.
5Vim li no kuv siv xibhwb cev kuv tej lus hlais lawv,
kuv siv tej lus hauv kuv lub qhov ncauj
tua lawv pov tseg,
kuv tej lus teem txim tawm mus
zoo yam li tus duab tshav ntuj.
6Kuv ntshaw txojkev hlub,
tsis yog ntshaw qhov uas tua tsiaj xyeem,
thiab ntshaw qhov uas paub Vajtswv
heev dua qhov uas hlawv huvsi xyeem.
7Tiamsis lawv rhuav tshem kuv tej lus cog tseg
rau ntawm lub moos Adas,⚓
lawv fav xeeb rau kuv ntawm lub chaw ntawd.
8Kile‑a yog lub moos uas
cov neeg ua phem nyob,
ntshav tsuas lub moos ntawd tag.
9Tej tub sab zov kev tos li cas,
cov pov thawj kuj ua ib pab zov kev tos
ib yam li ntawd,
lawv tua neeg ntawm txojkev
uas mus rau lub moos Sekhee,
lawv ua tej uas limhiam ntais ntuj ntag.
10Kuv pom tej uas ntxim ntxub kawg
nyob hauv cov Yixayee,
Efa‑i kuj mus deev luag qhov ntawd,
Yixayee kuj qias puas tsuas.
11Yuda 'e, twb teem lub caij hlais
ib yam li ntawd rau koj lawm.
“Thaum kuv yuav pub kuv haiv
neeg rov vam meej li qub,