Today’s Daily Devotions: Come, Let Us Return To The Lord. He has Torn Us To Pieces But He Will Heal Us; He Has Injured Us But He Will Bind Up Our Wounds.

Hosea 6

Israel Unrepentant

1 “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us
but he will bind up our wounds.

2 After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will restore us,
that we may live in his presence.

3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises, he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 “What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist, like the early dew that disappears.

5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
I killed you with the words of my mouth—
then my judgments go forth like the sun.

6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

7 As at Adam, they have broken the covenant;
they were unfaithful to me there.

8 Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.

9 As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests;
they murder on the road to Shechem,
carrying out their wicked schemes.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in Israel:There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
Israel is defiled.

11 “Also for you, Judah,
a harvest is appointed.
“Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,

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