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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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以色列無悔改誠意
1來，我們歸向耶和華吧！
他撕裂我們，也必醫治；
打傷我們，也必包紮。
2過兩天他必使我們甦醒，
第三天他必使我們興起，
我們就在他面前得以存活。
3我們要認識，要追求認識耶和華。
他如黎明必然出現，
他必臨到我們像甘霖，
像滋潤土地的春雨。
4以法蓮哪，我可以向你怎樣行呢？
猶大啊，我可以向你怎樣做呢？
因為你們的慈愛如同早晨的雲霧，
又如速散的露水。
5因此，我藉先知砍伐他們，
以我口中的話殺戮他們；
對你的審判⚓如光發出。
6我喜愛慈愛⚓，不喜愛祭物；
喜愛人認識上帝，勝於燔祭。
7他們卻如亞當⚓背約，
在那裏向我行詭詐。
8基列是作惡之人的城，
被血沾染。
9成羣的祭司如強盜埋伏等候，
在示劍的路上殺戮，
行了邪惡。
10在以色列家我看見可憎的事，
在以法蓮那裏有淫行，
以色列被污辱了。
11猶大啊，我使被擄之民歸回的時候，
必有為你所預備的豐收。