1 A Call to Repentance Come, Is. 1:18; Acts 10:43 and let us return to the Lord ; For Deut. 32:39; Hos. 5:14 He has torn, but Jer. 30:17; Hos. 14:4 He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
2 Luke 24:46; Acts 10:40; (1 Cor. 15:4) After two days He will revive us; On the third day He will raise us up, That we may live in His sight.
3 Is. 54:13 Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord . His going forth is established 2 Sam. 23:4 as the morning; Ps. 72:6; Joel 2:23 He will come to us Job 29:23 like the rain, Like the latter and former rain to the earth.
4 Impenitence of Israel and Judah “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.
5 Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by (Jer. 23:29) the words of My mouth; And your judgments are like light that goes forth.
6 For I desire Matt. 9:13; 12:7 mercy and Is. 1:12, 13; (Mic. 6:6–8) not sacrifice, And the (John 17:3) knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 “But like men they transgressed the covenant; There they dealt treacherously with Me.
8 Hos. 12:11 Gilead is a city of evildoers And defiled with blood.
9 As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, So the company of Hos. 5:1 priests Jer. 7:9, 10; Hos. 4:2 murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they commit Ezek. 22:9; 23:27; Hos. 2:10 lewdness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: There is the harlotry of Ephraim; Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed for you, When I return the captives of My people.