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VI] :, and let us return unto the Lord:
 * For he hath torn, and he will heal us;
 * He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
 * After two days will he revive us:
 * In the third day he will raise us up,
 * And we shall live in his sight.
 * Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord:
 * His going forth is prepared as the morning;
 * And he shall come unto us as the rain,
 * As the latter and former rain unto the earth.


 * O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
 * O Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
 * For your goodness is as a morning cloud,
 * And as the early dew it goeth away.
 * Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets;
 * I have slain them by the words of my mouth:
 * And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
 * For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;
 * And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
 * But they like men have transgressed the covenant:
 * There have they dealt treacherously against me.
 * Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity,
 * And is polluted with blood.
 * And as troops of robbers wait for a man,
 * So the company of priests murder in the way by consent: