The Response to God’s Rebuke
“aCome, let us 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 us aknow, let us press on to know the LORD.His bgoing forth is as certain as the dawn;And He will come to us like the crain,Like the spring rain watering 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, O aEphraim?What shall I do with you, O Judah?For your 1loyalty is like a bmorning cloudAnd like the dew which goes away early.Or lovingkindnessHos 7:1; 11:8Ps 78:34-37; Hos 13:35 Therefore I have ahewn 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 goes forth.1 Sam 15:32, 33; Jer 1:10; 5:14Jer 23:296 For aI delight in loyalty brather than sacrifice,And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.Matt 9:13; 12:7Is 1:117 But alike 1Adam they have btransgressed the covenant;There they have cdealt treacherously against 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 araiders wait for a man,So a band of priests bmurder on the way to Shechem;Surely they have committed 1ccrime.Or lewdnessHos 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 bharlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.Jer 5:30, 31; 23:14Hos 5:311 Also, O Judah, there is a aharvest appointed for you,When I brestore the fortunes of My people.Jer 51:33; Joel 3:13Zeph 2:7