4. What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early--going.
5. Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.
6. For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burntofferings.
7. And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.
8. Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
9. And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder--the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.