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Parallel Verses
  • The Message - “Come on, let’s go back to God. He hurt us, but he’ll heal us. He hit us hard, but he’ll put us right again. In a couple of days we’ll feel better. By the third day he’ll have made us brand-new, Alive and on our feet, fit to face him. We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground.” * * *
  • 新标点和合本 - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 来,我们归向耶和华吧! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 打伤我们,也必包扎。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 来,我们归向耶和华吧! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 打伤我们,也必包扎。
  • 当代译本 - “来吧,我们归向耶和华! 祂撕裂我们,也必医治我们; 祂打伤我们,也必为我们包扎。
  • 圣经新译本 - “来吧!让我们回转归向耶和华; 因为,他虽然撕裂了我们,但必定医治我们; 他虽然击伤了我们,却必替我们裹伤。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • New International Version - “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
  • New International Reader's Version - The people say, “Come. Let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces. But he will heal us. He has wounded us. But he’ll bandage our wounds.
  • English Standard Version - “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.
  • New Living Translation - “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.
  • Christian Standard Bible - Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.
  • New American Standard Bible - “Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
  • New King James Version - Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
  • Amplified Bible - “Come and let us return [in repentance] to the Lord, For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • New English Translation - “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! Let’s 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.
  • 新標點和合本 - 來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 他打傷我們,也必纏裹。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 來,我們歸向耶和華吧! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 打傷我們,也必包紮。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 來,我們歸向耶和華吧! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 打傷我們,也必包紮。
  • 當代譯本 - 「來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 祂撕裂我們,也必醫治我們; 祂打傷我們,也必為我們包紮。
  • 聖經新譯本 - “來吧!讓我們回轉歸向耶和華; 因為,他雖然撕裂了我們,但必定醫治我們; 他雖然擊傷了我們,卻必替我們裹傷。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『來吧,我們回歸於永恆主吧, 因為他撕裂,他也必醫治我們; 他擊傷,他也必給我們綁紮。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 他打傷我們,也必纏裹。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 其來、我儕歸耶和華、彼既裂我、亦必醫我、彼既擊我、亦必裹我、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 彼必曰、耶和華既戕我、必醫痊我、既擊我、必彌縫我、莫若歸之、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 曰、我儕莫若歸主、主既戕我、必醫痊我、既擊我、必裹我傷、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - ¡Vengan, volvámonos al Señor! Él nos ha despedazado, pero nos sanará; nos ha herido, pero nos vendará.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그들이 이렇게 말할 것이다. “오라! 우리가 여호와께 돌아가자. 여호와께서 우리를 찢으셨으나 우리를 다시 낫게 하실 것이며 우리에게 상처를 입히셨으나 우리를 싸매 주실 것이다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - – В своем страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдем и вернемся к Господу. Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит нас. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - – Venez, et retournons à l’Eternel, car il a déchiré, ╵mais il nous guérira. Il a frappé, ╵mais il pansera nos blessures.
  • リビングバイブル - 『さあ、主に帰ろう。 私たちを引き裂いたのは主だ。 その方が治してくださる。 主は傷つけたが、手当てしてくださる。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Venham, voltemos para o Senhor. Ele nos despedaçou, mas nos trará cura; ele nos feriu, mas sarará nossas feridas.
  • Hoffnung für alle - ›Kommt, wir wollen zum Herrn umkehren! Er hat uns verletzt, aber er wird uns auch wieder heilen; er hat uns geschlagen, aber nun wird er unsere Wunden verbinden!
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Hãy đến, chúng ta hãy trở về với Chúa Hằng Hữu. Chúa đã xé chúng ta từng mảnh; nhưng giờ đây Ngài sẽ chữa lành cho chúng ta. Chúa đã khiến chúng ta bị thương, nhưng giờ đây Ngài sẽ băng bó vết thương chúng ta.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “มาเถิด ให้เรากลับมาหาองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า แม้พระองค์ทรงฉีกเราเป็นชิ้นๆ แต่พระองค์จะทรงรักษาเรา แม้ทรงกระทำให้เราบาดเจ็บ แต่พระองค์จะทรงสมานแผลให้เรา
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “มา​เถิด พวก​เรา​หัน​กลับ​ไป​หา​พระ​ผู้​เป็น​เจ้า​กัน​เถิด พระ​องค์​ได้​ฉีก​พวก​เรา​ออก​เป็น​ชิ้นๆ แต่​พระ​องค์​จะ​รักษา​พวก​เรา​ให้​หาย พระ​องค์​ทำ​ให้​พวก​เรา​บาด​เจ็บ แต่​พระ​องค์​จะ​พัน​บาด​แผล​ให้
Cross Reference
  • Zephaniah 2:1 - So get yourselves together. Shape up! You’re a nation without a clue about what it wants. Do it before you’re blown away like leaves in a windstorm, Before God’s Judgment-anger sweeps down on you, Before God’s Judgment Day wrath descends with full force. * * *
  • Jeremiah 30:12 - “This is God’s Message: “‘You’re a burned-out case, as good as dead. Everyone has given up on you. You’re hopeless. All your fair-weather friends have skipped town without giving you a second thought. But I delivered the knockout blow, a punishment you will never forget, Because of the enormity of your guilt, the endless list of your sins. So why all this self-pity, licking your wounds? You deserve all this, and more. Because of the enormity of your guilt, the endless list of your sins, I’ve done all this to you.
  • Hosea 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, Ephraim went running to Assyria, went for help to the big king. But he can’t heal you. He can’t cure your oozing sores.
  • Hosea 5:14 - “I’m a grizzly charging Ephraim, a grizzly with cubs charging Judah. I’ll rip them to pieces—yes, I will! No one can stop me now. I’ll drag them off. No one can help them. Then I’ll go back to where I came from until they come to their senses. When they finally hit rock bottom, maybe they’ll come looking for me.”
  • Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those days, at that time”—God’s Decree— “the people of Israel will come, And the people of Judah with them. Walking and weeping, they’ll seek me, their God. They’ll ask directions to Zion and set their faces toward Zion. They’ll come and hold tight to God, bound in a covenant eternal they’ll never forget.
  • Hosea 13:7 - “I’ll charge them like a lion, like a leopard stalking in the brush. I’ll jump them like a sow grizzly robbed of her cubs. I’ll rip out their guts. Coyotes will make a meal of them. Crows will clean their bones. I’m going to destroy you, Israel. Who is going to stop me? Where is your trusty king you thought would save you? Where are all the local leaders you wanted so badly? All these rulers you insisted on having, demanding, ‘Give me a king! Give me leaders!’? Well, long ago I gave you a king, but I wasn’t happy about it. Now, fed up, I’ve gotten rid of him. I have a detailed record of your infidelities— Ephraim’s sin documented and stored in a safe-deposit box.
  • Jeremiah 3:22 - “We’re here! We’ve come back to you. You’re our own true God! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We’re back! Back to our true God, the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God, we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we’ve been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God.” * * *
  • Lamentations 3:40 - Let’s take a good look at the way we’re living and reorder our lives under God. Let’s lift our hearts and hands at one and the same time, praying to God in heaven: “We’ve been contrary and willful, and you haven’t forgiven.
  • Hosea 14:1 - O Israel, come back! Return to your God! You’re down but you’re not out. Prepare your confession and come back to God. Pray to him, “Take away our sin, accept our confession. Receive as restitution our repentant prayers. Assyria won’t save us; horses won’t get us where we want to go. We’ll never again say ‘our god’ to something we’ve made or made up. You’re our last hope. Is it not true that in you the orphan finds mercy?” * * *
  • Job 34:29 - “If God is silent, what’s that to you? If he turns his face away, what can you do about it? But whether silent or hidden, he’s there, ruling, so that those who hate God won’t take over and ruin people’s lives.
  • Hosea 14:4 - “I will heal their waywardness. I will love them lavishly. My anger is played out. I will make a fresh start with Israel. He’ll burst into bloom like a crocus in the spring. He’ll put down deep oak tree roots, he’ll become a forest of oaks! He’ll become splendid—like a giant sequoia, his fragrance like a grove of cedars! Those who live near him will be blessed by him, be blessed and prosper like golden grain. Everyone will be talking about them, spreading their fame as the vintage children of God. Ephraim is finished with gods that are no-gods. From now on I’m the one who answers and satisfies him. I am like a luxuriant fruit tree. Everything you need is to be found in me.” * * *
  • 1 Samuel 2:6 - God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up. He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God’s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! God’s enemies will be blasted out of the sky, crashed in a heap and burned. God will set things right all over the earth, he’ll give strength to his king, he’ll set his anointed on top of the world!
  • Deuteronomy 32:39 - “Do you see it now? Do you see that I’m the one? Do you see that there’s no other god beside me? I bring death and I give life, I wound and I heal— there is no getting away from or around me! I raise my hand in solemn oath; I say, ‘I’m always around. By that very life I promise: When I sharpen my lightning sword and execute judgment, I take vengeance on my enemies and pay back those who hate me. I’ll make my arrows drunk with blood, my sword will gorge itself on flesh, Feasting on slain and captive alike, the proud and vain enemy corpses.’”
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • The Message - “Come on, let’s go back to God. He hurt us, but he’ll heal us. He hit us hard, but he’ll put us right again. In a couple of days we’ll feel better. By the third day he’ll have made us brand-new, Alive and on our feet, fit to face him. We’re ready to study God, eager for God-knowledge. As sure as dawn breaks, so sure is his daily arrival. He comes as rain comes, as spring rain refreshing the ground.” * * *
  • 新标点和合本 - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 来,我们归向耶和华吧! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 打伤我们,也必包扎。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 来,我们归向耶和华吧! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 打伤我们,也必包扎。
  • 当代译本 - “来吧,我们归向耶和华! 祂撕裂我们,也必医治我们; 祂打伤我们,也必为我们包扎。
  • 圣经新译本 - “来吧!让我们回转归向耶和华; 因为,他虽然撕裂了我们,但必定医治我们; 他虽然击伤了我们,却必替我们裹伤。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 来吧,我们归向耶和华! 他撕裂我们,也必医治; 他打伤我们,也必缠裹。
  • New International Version - “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us; he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds.
  • New International Reader's Version - The people say, “Come. Let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces. But he will heal us. He has wounded us. But he’ll bandage our wounds.
  • English Standard Version - “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.
  • New Living Translation - “Come, let us return to the Lord. He has torn us to pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.
  • Christian Standard Bible - Come, let’s return to the Lord. For he has torn us, and he will heal us; he has wounded us, and he will bind up our wounds.
  • New American Standard Bible - “Come, let’s return to the Lord. For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
  • New King James Version - Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.
  • Amplified Bible - “Come and let us return [in repentance] to the Lord, For He has torn us, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • New English Translation - “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! Let’s 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.
  • 新標點和合本 - 來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 他打傷我們,也必纏裹。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 來,我們歸向耶和華吧! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 打傷我們,也必包紮。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 來,我們歸向耶和華吧! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 打傷我們,也必包紮。
  • 當代譯本 - 「來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 祂撕裂我們,也必醫治我們; 祂打傷我們,也必為我們包紮。
  • 聖經新譯本 - “來吧!讓我們回轉歸向耶和華; 因為,他雖然撕裂了我們,但必定醫治我們; 他雖然擊傷了我們,卻必替我們裹傷。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『來吧,我們回歸於永恆主吧, 因為他撕裂,他也必醫治我們; 他擊傷,他也必給我們綁紮。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 來吧,我們歸向耶和華! 他撕裂我們,也必醫治; 他打傷我們,也必纏裹。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 其來、我儕歸耶和華、彼既裂我、亦必醫我、彼既擊我、亦必裹我、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 彼必曰、耶和華既戕我、必醫痊我、既擊我、必彌縫我、莫若歸之、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 曰、我儕莫若歸主、主既戕我、必醫痊我、既擊我、必裹我傷、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - ¡Vengan, volvámonos al Señor! Él nos ha despedazado, pero nos sanará; nos ha herido, pero nos vendará.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그들이 이렇게 말할 것이다. “오라! 우리가 여호와께 돌아가자. 여호와께서 우리를 찢으셨으나 우리를 다시 낫게 하실 것이며 우리에게 상처를 입히셨으나 우리를 싸매 주실 것이다.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - – В своем страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдем и вернемся к Господу. Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит нас. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - – В своём страдании они будут настойчиво искать Меня: «Пойдём и вернёмся к Вечному! Он поразил нас, но Он же и исцелит. Он поранил нас, но Он же и перевяжет наши раны.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - – Venez, et retournons à l’Eternel, car il a déchiré, ╵mais il nous guérira. Il a frappé, ╵mais il pansera nos blessures.
  • リビングバイブル - 『さあ、主に帰ろう。 私たちを引き裂いたのは主だ。 その方が治してくださる。 主は傷つけたが、手当てしてくださる。
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Venham, voltemos para o Senhor. Ele nos despedaçou, mas nos trará cura; ele nos feriu, mas sarará nossas feridas.
  • Hoffnung für alle - ›Kommt, wir wollen zum Herrn umkehren! Er hat uns verletzt, aber er wird uns auch wieder heilen; er hat uns geschlagen, aber nun wird er unsere Wunden verbinden!
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - “Hãy đến, chúng ta hãy trở về với Chúa Hằng Hữu. Chúa đã xé chúng ta từng mảnh; nhưng giờ đây Ngài sẽ chữa lành cho chúng ta. Chúa đã khiến chúng ta bị thương, nhưng giờ đây Ngài sẽ băng bó vết thương chúng ta.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “มาเถิด ให้เรากลับมาหาองค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า แม้พระองค์ทรงฉีกเราเป็นชิ้นๆ แต่พระองค์จะทรงรักษาเรา แม้ทรงกระทำให้เราบาดเจ็บ แต่พระองค์จะทรงสมานแผลให้เรา
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - “มา​เถิด พวก​เรา​หัน​กลับ​ไป​หา​พระ​ผู้​เป็น​เจ้า​กัน​เถิด พระ​องค์​ได้​ฉีก​พวก​เรา​ออก​เป็น​ชิ้นๆ แต่​พระ​องค์​จะ​รักษา​พวก​เรา​ให้​หาย พระ​องค์​ทำ​ให้​พวก​เรา​บาด​เจ็บ แต่​พระ​องค์​จะ​พัน​บาด​แผล​ให้
  • Zephaniah 2:1 - So get yourselves together. Shape up! You’re a nation without a clue about what it wants. Do it before you’re blown away like leaves in a windstorm, Before God’s Judgment-anger sweeps down on you, Before God’s Judgment Day wrath descends with full force. * * *
  • Jeremiah 30:12 - “This is God’s Message: “‘You’re a burned-out case, as good as dead. Everyone has given up on you. You’re hopeless. All your fair-weather friends have skipped town without giving you a second thought. But I delivered the knockout blow, a punishment you will never forget, Because of the enormity of your guilt, the endless list of your sins. So why all this self-pity, licking your wounds? You deserve all this, and more. Because of the enormity of your guilt, the endless list of your sins, I’ve done all this to you.
  • Hosea 5:13 - “When Ephraim saw he was sick and Judah saw his pus-filled sores, Ephraim went running to Assyria, went for help to the big king. But he can’t heal you. He can’t cure your oozing sores.
  • Hosea 5:14 - “I’m a grizzly charging Ephraim, a grizzly with cubs charging Judah. I’ll rip them to pieces—yes, I will! No one can stop me now. I’ll drag them off. No one can help them. Then I’ll go back to where I came from until they come to their senses. When they finally hit rock bottom, maybe they’ll come looking for me.”
  • Jeremiah 50:4 - “In those days, at that time”—God’s Decree— “the people of Israel will come, And the people of Judah with them. Walking and weeping, they’ll seek me, their God. They’ll ask directions to Zion and set their faces toward Zion. They’ll come and hold tight to God, bound in a covenant eternal they’ll never forget.
  • Hosea 13:7 - “I’ll charge them like a lion, like a leopard stalking in the brush. I’ll jump them like a sow grizzly robbed of her cubs. I’ll rip out their guts. Coyotes will make a meal of them. Crows will clean their bones. I’m going to destroy you, Israel. Who is going to stop me? Where is your trusty king you thought would save you? Where are all the local leaders you wanted so badly? All these rulers you insisted on having, demanding, ‘Give me a king! Give me leaders!’? Well, long ago I gave you a king, but I wasn’t happy about it. Now, fed up, I’ve gotten rid of him. I have a detailed record of your infidelities— Ephraim’s sin documented and stored in a safe-deposit box.
  • Jeremiah 3:22 - “We’re here! We’ve come back to you. You’re our own true God! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We’re back! Back to our true God, the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God, we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we’ve been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God.” * * *
  • Lamentations 3:40 - Let’s take a good look at the way we’re living and reorder our lives under God. Let’s lift our hearts and hands at one and the same time, praying to God in heaven: “We’ve been contrary and willful, and you haven’t forgiven.
  • Hosea 14:1 - O Israel, come back! Return to your God! You’re down but you’re not out. Prepare your confession and come back to God. Pray to him, “Take away our sin, accept our confession. Receive as restitution our repentant prayers. Assyria won’t save us; horses won’t get us where we want to go. We’ll never again say ‘our god’ to something we’ve made or made up. You’re our last hope. Is it not true that in you the orphan finds mercy?” * * *
  • Job 34:29 - “If God is silent, what’s that to you? If he turns his face away, what can you do about it? But whether silent or hidden, he’s there, ruling, so that those who hate God won’t take over and ruin people’s lives.
  • Hosea 14:4 - “I will heal their waywardness. I will love them lavishly. My anger is played out. I will make a fresh start with Israel. He’ll burst into bloom like a crocus in the spring. He’ll put down deep oak tree roots, he’ll become a forest of oaks! He’ll become splendid—like a giant sequoia, his fragrance like a grove of cedars! Those who live near him will be blessed by him, be blessed and prosper like golden grain. Everyone will be talking about them, spreading their fame as the vintage children of God. Ephraim is finished with gods that are no-gods. From now on I’m the one who answers and satisfies him. I am like a luxuriant fruit tree. Everything you need is to be found in me.” * * *
  • 1 Samuel 2:6 - God brings death and God brings life, brings down to the grave and raises up. God brings poverty and God brings wealth; he lowers, he also lifts up. He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives— a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God’s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation. He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! God’s enemies will be blasted out of the sky, crashed in a heap and burned. God will set things right all over the earth, he’ll give strength to his king, he’ll set his anointed on top of the world!
  • Deuteronomy 32:39 - “Do you see it now? Do you see that I’m the one? Do you see that there’s no other god beside me? I bring death and I give life, I wound and I heal— there is no getting away from or around me! I raise my hand in solemn oath; I say, ‘I’m always around. By that very life I promise: When I sharpen my lightning sword and execute judgment, I take vengeance on my enemies and pay back those who hate me. I’ll make my arrows drunk with blood, my sword will gorge itself on flesh, Feasting on slain and captive alike, the proud and vain enemy corpses.’”
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