I will deal with the people and priests together: I will punish them both for their ways, and I will repay them for their deeds.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

“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!

They will not remain in the Lord’s land. Ephraim will return to Egypt; they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.

The Lord also has a covenant lawsuit against Judah; he will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

But you must return to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting for your God to return to you.

But Ephraim bitterly provoked him to anger; so he will hold him accountable for the blood he has shed, his Lord will repay him for the contempt he has shown.

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for your sin has been your downfall!

“I will heal their waywardness and love them freely, for my anger will turn away from them.

People will reside again in his shade; they will plant and harvest grain in abundance. They will blossom like a vine, and his fame will be like the wine from Lebanon.

“Yet even now,” the Lord says, “return to me with all your heart – with fasting, weeping, and mourning. Tear your hearts, not just your garments!”

Who knows? Perhaps he will be compassionate and grant a reprieve, and leave blessing in his wake – a meal offering and a drink offering for you to offer to the Lord your God!

(4:1) For look! In those days and at that time I will return the exiles to Judah and Jerusalem.

Look! I am rousing them from that place to which you sold them. I will repay you for what you have done!

Instead, they tried to row back to land, but they were not able to do so because the storm kept growing worse and worse.

but you rise up as an enemy against my people. You steal a robe from a friend, from those who pass by peacefully as if returning from a war.

You will once again have mercy on us; you will conquer our evil deeds; you will hurl our sins into the depths of the sea.

The angelic messenger who had been speaking with me then returned and woke me, as a person is wakened from sleep.

Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed he is a prophet and he will pray for you; thus you will live. But if you don’t give her back, know that you will surely die along with all who belong to you.”