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\c 6
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\q1
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\v 1 The people say, "Come, let us return to Yahweh.
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\q1 He has torn our flesh to pieces as a lion tears up his victim.
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\q2 He did this, but he will heal our wounds.
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\q1 He has hurt us and made us fall down,
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\q2 but he will treat our wounds and bind them up so they will heal.
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\q1
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\v 2 After the second day he will restore our strength;
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\q2 and on the third day he will raise us up,
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\q2 so we will live close to him.
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\q1
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\v 3 Try to know Yahweh;
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\q2 do all you can to be faithful to him.
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\q1 It is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise
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\q2 that he will come to us; he will come to us like the rain,
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\q1 like the rain comes in the spring on our fields."
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\q1
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\v 4 But Yahweh says, "What can I do with you, you people of Ephraim?
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\q2 What can I do with you, you people of the tribe of Judah?
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\q1 You love me for just as long as the clouds come in the morning before they disappear again.
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\q2 You love me for just as long as the dew stays before the warm sun shines on it.
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\q1
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\v 5 I sent my prophets to you,
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\q2 and it was as though I had cut you into pieces when they spoke the messages I gave them.
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\q1 You were devastated by what they said to you.
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\q2 It was as though I had killed you with the words I spoke to you.
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\q1 I spoke about how I would punish you.
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\q2 I told you by the prophets that I was angry with you, and they told you this."
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\q1 "Yahweh, you will punish them by commanding that it happen;
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\q2 your words are like lightning bolts."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 6 Yahweh says, "I want you to be faithful to me forever.
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\q2 I want that more than I want you to offer me sacrifices.
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\q1 I want you to know me—that is much more important to me
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\q2 than when you give me offerings that the priests burn on the altar.
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\q1
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\v 7 But like Adam, the first man,
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\q2 the covenant that they made with me and that I, Yahweh, made with them—they broke it.
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\q2 When they did that, they were not faithful to me.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 Gilead is a city of people who do wicked things;
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\q2 in the streets of that city are the footprints of murderers.
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\q1
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\v 9 As robbers make their plans to hide and then rob someone walking past them,
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\q2 so are the priests—they band together making their plans, just like the robbers,
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\q1 and they commit murder along the way to Shechem.
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\q2 They commit terrible crimes.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 Among the people of Israel, I have seen a horrible thing—
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\q2 the people of Ephraim worship idols everywhere.
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\q1 The people of Israel have become filthy by what they have done.
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\q1
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\v 11 And for you also, you people of Judah,
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\q2 I have set for you a time when I will separate out your good people from your bad people.
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\q1 Just as in the harvest when you take all the crops in,
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\q2 and you keep the good and throw away the bad,
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\q1 that is what is coming for you, people of Judah.
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\b
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\q1 That will be the day when I bring back the blessings and riches of my people once more."
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