4. “O Ephraim, what shall I do for you? O Judah, what will I do for you? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud or like dew rising early, vanishing.
5. Therefore I cut them down by the prophets. I slew them by the words of My mouth. Now the judgments pronounced against you: light will go forth.
6. For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7. But like Adam, they transgressed a covenant. There they dealt treacherously with Me.
8. Gilead is a city of evildoers, tracked with bloody footprints.
9. Like marauding bands waiting for a man, so a company of priests murders on the way toward Shechem. For they have committed crime.
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: Ephraim’s prostitution is there, Israel has become unclean.
11. Also, Judah, there is a harvest for you, when I return My people from captivity.”