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Hosea 12:6
So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
Hosea 12:6 · Bible in Basic English
Hosea 12:6 in other translations
Therefore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judgment, and wait on thy God continually.
But you must return to your God, maintaining love and justice, and always waiting on your God.
Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, and wait continually for your God.
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In context
3 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;
4 He had a fight with the angel and overcame him; he made request for grace to him with weeping; he came face to face with him in Beth-el and there his words came to him;
5 Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.
6 So then, come back to your God; keep mercy and right, and be waiting at all times on your God.
7 As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.
8 And Ephraim said, Now I have got wealth and much property; in all my works no sin may be seen in me.
9 But I am the Lord your God from the land of Egypt; I will give you tents for your living-places again as in the days of the holy meeting.
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