“Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness.” “Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
I will heal their apostasy; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them.
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”
“Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn us, that he may heal us; he has struck us down, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.
But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior.
Afterward the children of Israel shall return and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and they shall come in fear to the Lord and to his goodness in the latter days.
For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast: ‘It is Zion, for whom no one cares!’
I have heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for you are the Lord my God.
Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.
O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress; from me comes your fruit.
Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.
Measure by measure, by exile you contended with them; he removed them with his fierce breath in the day of the east wind.
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