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Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
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Truly in vain is [the help that is looked for] from the hills, the tumult on the mountains: truly in Yahweh our God is the salvation of Israel.
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But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
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Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Yahweh our God.