Hosea 6:4–11
4 nO Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee?
nO Judah, what shall I do unto thee?
For your ||goodness is oas a morning cloud,
oAnd as the early dew it goeth away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them pby the prophets;
I have slain them qby the words of my mouth:
||And thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For rI desired mercy, and rsnot sacrifice;
And tthe knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they ||like men uhave transgressed the covenant:
There vhave they dealt treacherously against me.
8 wGilead is a city of them that work iniquity,
And is ||polluted with blood.
9 And as ytroops of robbers wait for a man,
zSo athe company of priests murder in the way †by consent:
10 I have seen ean horrible thing in the house of Israel:
fThere is the whoredom of Ephraim, fIsrael is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, ghe hath set an harvest for thee,
hWhen I returned the captivity of my people.