6“aCome, let us return to Yahweh.For bHe has tornus, but cHe will heal us;He has struckus, but He will dbandage us.2“He will amake us aliveafter two days;He will braise us up on the thirdday,That we may livebefore Him.3“So let us aknow, let us pursue to knowYahweh.His bgoingforth is established as the dawn;And He will come to us like the crain,Like the 1laterainwatering the earth.”4What shall I do with you, O aEphraim?What shall I do with you, O Judah?For your lovingkindness is like a bmorningcloudAnd like the dew which goes away early.5Therefore I have ahewntheminpieces by the prophets;I have killed them by the bwords of My mouth;And the judgments on you are like the light that goesforth.6For aI delight in lovingkindnessbratherthansacrifice,And in the knowledge of Godratherthanburntofferings.7But alike 1Adam they have btrespassed against the covenant;There they have cdealttreacherously against Me.8aGilead is a city of workers of iniquity,With a track of bblood.9And as araiderswait for a man,So a band of priestsbmurder on the way to Shechem;Surely they have committedclewdness.10In the house of Israel I have seen an aappallingthing;Ephraim’sbharlotry is there; Israel has defiled itself.11Also, O Judah, there is a aharvestset for youWhen I brestore the fortunes of My people,
