Daily Bible GNT July 19 Verses

The People's Insincere Repentance

Hosea 6 The people say, "Let's return to the LORD! He has hurt us, but he will be sure to heal us; he has wounded us, but he will bandage our wounds, won't he? ²In two or three days he will revive us, and we will live in his presence. ³Let us try to know the LORD. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth."

⁴But the LORD says, "Israel and Judah, what am I going to do with you? Your love for me disappears as quickly as morning mist; it is like dew, that vanishes early in the day. ⁵That is why I have sent my prophets to you with my message of judgment and destruction. What I want from you is plain and clear: ⁶I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.

⁷"But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them. ⁸Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers. ⁹The priests are like a gang of robbers who wait in ambush for someone. Even on the road to the holy place at Shechem they commit murder. And they do all this evil deliberately! ¹⁰I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: my people have defiled themselves by worshiping idols.

¹¹"And as for you, people of Judah, I have set a time to punish you also for what you are doing.

This reading is from The Holy Bible, Today's English Version, Second Edition copyright © American Bible Society, 1992;
Old Testament copyright © American Bible Society, 1976, 1992; New Testament © American Bible Society, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1992.

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