Hosea 6:4-11

1. 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

2. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.

3. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

4. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

5. 8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

6. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

7. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

8. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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