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Hosea 6:3-5
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3 Let’s recognize him as the Lord.
    Let’s keep trying to know him.
You can be sure the sun will rise.
    And you can be just as sure the Lord will appear.
He will come to renew us like the winter rains.
    He will be like the spring rains that water the earth.”

4 The Lord says, “Ephraim, what can I do with you?
    And what can I do with you, Judah?
Your love for me vanishes like the morning mist.
    It soon disappears like the early dew.
5 So I used the words of my prophets to cut you in pieces.
    I used my words to put you to death.
    Then my judgments blazed out like the sun.

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Hosea 6:3-5
New International Version

3 Let us acknowledge the Lord;
    let us press on to acknowledge him.
As surely as the sun rises,
    he will appear;
he will come to us like the winter rains,(A)
    like the spring rains that water the earth.(B)”

4 “What can I do with you, Ephraim?(C)
    What can I do with you, Judah?
Your love is like the morning mist,
    like the early dew that disappears.(D)
5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets,
    I killed you with the words of my mouth(E)—
    then my judgments go forth like the sun.[a](F)

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  1. Hosea 6:5 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.
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