The Response to God’s Rebuke
“aCome, let’s return to the LORD.For bHe has torn us, but cHe will heal us;He has 1wounded us, but He will dbandage us.Lit struckJer 50:4, 5Deut 32:39; Hos 5:14Jer 30:17; Hos 14:4Is 30:262 “He will arevive us after two days;He will braise us up on the third day,That we may live before Him.Ps 30:51 Cor 15:43 “So let’s alearn, let’s press on to know the LORD.His bappearance is as sure as the dawn;And He will come to us like the crain,As the spring rain waters the earth.”Is 2:3; Mic 4:2Ps 19:6; Mic 5:2Job 29:23; Ps 72:6; Joel 2:23
4 What shall I do with you, aEphraim?What shall I do with you, Judah?For your loyalty is like a bmorning cloud,And like the dew which goes away early.Hos 7:1; 11:8Ps 78:34-37; Hos 13:35 Therefore I have acut them in pieces by the prophets;I have slain them by the bwords of My mouth;And the judgments on you are like the light that 1shines.Lit proceeds1 Sam 15:32, 33; Jer 1:10; 5:14Jer 23:296 For aI 1desire loyalty brather than sacrifice,And the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.Or take pleasure inMatt 9:13; 12:7Is 1:117 But alike 1Adam they have bviolated the covenant;There they have cdealt treacherously with Me.Or menJob 31:33Hos 8:1Hos 5:78 aGilead is a city of wrongdoers,Tracked with bbloody footprints.Hos 12:11Hos 4:29 And as a aband of robbers lie in wait for a person,So a band of priests bmurder on the way to Shechem;Certainly they have committed an act of cinfamy.Hos 7:1Jer 7:9, 10; Hos 4:2Ezek 22:9; 23:27; Hos 2:1010 In the house of Israel I have seen a ahorrible thing;Ephraim’s binfidelity is there, Israel has defiled itself.Jer 5:30, 31; 23:14Hos 5:311 Also, Judah, there is a aharvest appointed for you,When I brestore the fortunes of My people.Jer 51:33; Joel 3:13Zeph 2:7