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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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以色列无悔改诚意
1来，我们归向耶和华吧！
他撕裂我们，也必医治；
打伤我们，也必包扎。
2过两天他必使我们苏醒，
第三天他必使我们兴起，
我们就在他面前得以存活。
3我们要认识，要追求认识耶和华。
他如黎明必然出现，
他必临到我们像甘霖，
像滋润土地的春雨。
4以法莲哪，我可以向你怎样行呢？
犹大啊，我可以向你怎样做呢？
因为你们的慈爱如同早晨的云雾，
又如速散的露水。
5因此，我藉先知砍伐他们，
以我口中的话杀戮他们；
对你的审判⚓如光发出。
6我喜爱慈爱⚓，不喜爱祭物；
喜爱人认识上帝，胜于燔祭。
7他们却如亚当⚓背约，
在那里向我行诡诈。
8基列是作恶之人的城，
被血沾染。
9成群的祭司如强盗埋伏等候，
在示剑的路上杀戮，
行了邪恶。
10在以色列家我看见可憎的事，
在以法莲那里有淫行，
以色列被污辱了。
11犹大啊，我使被掳之民归回的时候，
必有为你所预备的丰收。