6:1 Let's return to the Lord. He has torn us to shreds, but he will bandage our wounds and make us well.
6:2 In two or three days he will heal us and restore our strength that we may live with him.
6:3 Let's do our best to know the Lord. His coming is as certain as the morning sun; he will refresh us like rain renewing the earth in the springtime.
6:4 People of Israel and Judah, what can I do with you? Your love for me disappears more quickly than mist or dew at sunrise.
6:5 That's why I slaughtered you with the words of my prophets. That's why my judgments blazed like the dawning sun.
6:6 I'd rather for you to be faithful and to know me than to offer sacrifices.
6:7 At a place named Adam, you betrayed me by breaking our agreement.
6:8 Everyone in Gilead is evil; your hands are stained with the blood of victims.
6:9 You priests are like a gang of robbers in ambush. On the road to Shechem you murder and commit other horrible crimes.
6:10 I have seen a terrible thing in Israel— you are unfaithful and unfit to worship me.
6:11 People of Judah, your time is coming too. I, the Lord, would like to make my nation prosper again
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