Hosea 6:4–11
4 What shall I do with you, O aEphraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
For your 1loyalty is like a bmorning cloud
And like the dew which goes away early.
5 Therefore I have ahewn them in pieces by the prophets;
I have slain them by the bwords of My mouth;
And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6 For aI delight in loyalty brather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7 But alike 1Adam they have btransgressed the covenant;
There they have cdealt treacherously against Me.
8 aGilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bbloody footprints.
9 And as araiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests bmurder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed 1ccrime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a ahorrible thing;
Ephraim’s bharlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11 Also, O Judah, there is a aharvest appointed for you,
When I brestore the fortunes of My people.