Hosea 6:1-4, 6-9 “Come, let us return to the Lord it is He who has torn us- He will heal us. He has wounded-He will bind us up.
2 In just a couple of days, or three at the most, He will set us on our feet again, to live in His kindness! 3 Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know him, and he will respond to us as surely as the coming of dawn or the rain of early spring.” 6 I don’t want your sacrifice- I want your love; I don’t want your offerings- I want you to know me.
7 But like Adam, you broke My covenant; you refused My love. 8 Gilead is a city of sinners, tracked with footprints of blood. 9 Her citizens are gangs of robbers, lying in ambush for their victims; packs of priests murder along the road to Shechem and practice every kind of sin.
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