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HOSEA 9-10:
I like how the Good News Translation translates the first paragraph of chapter 6 as being the words of the people of Israel.

Hosea 6:1-4 GNT:
1 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?
2 In two or three days he will revive us, and we will live in his presence.
3 Let 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.”

4 But 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.

PROVERBS 24b:
Just one of many neat nuggets of truth in today’s reading:

Pro. 24:26 NLT An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.

MATTHEW 6a:
Yesterday’s reading had five ‘You have heard it said … But I tell you …’ And they included some of the hardest ones for us to obey.