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The Book of Hosea, Chapter 6, Verse 1

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I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
King James Version
Come, 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.
American Standard Version
Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
New English Translation
Superficial Repentance Breeds False Assurance of God’s Forgiveness“Come on! Let’s return to the LORD! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!
World English Bible
"Come, and let us return to Yahweh; for he has torn us to pieces, and he will heal us; he has injured us, and he will bind up our wounds.
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After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.