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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh is speaking.
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# what will I do with you?
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God is expressing that his patience is coming to an end and what remains is judgment. AT: "it is hard to know what to do with you!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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# So I have cut them to pieces by the prophets
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Through his prophets, Yahweh has pronounced destruction on the rebellious nation. The destruction, here called "cutting to pieces," is as sure as the condemnation. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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# Your decrees are like the light that shines out
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Here the prophet Hosea is speaking to God. He may mean that when God gives the command for someone to die as punishment, it is like a bolt of lightning that strikes. Or he may mean that God's commandments allow people to know the truth, just as light makes objects visible. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-simile]])
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# Your decrees
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"Yahweh's commands" |