3. "So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord. His going forth is as certain as the dawn; And He will come to us like the rain, Like the spring rain watering the earth."
4. What shall I do with you, O Ephraim? What shall I do with you, O Judah? For your loyalty is like a morning cloud And like the dew which goes away early.
5. Therefore I have hewn them in pieces by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of My mouth; And the judgments on you are like the light that goes forth.
6. For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7. But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant; There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8. Gilead is a city of wrongdoers, Tracked with bloody footprints.
9. And as raiders wait for a man, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Surely they have committed crime.
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing; Ephraim's harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.
11. Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you, When I restore the fortunes of My people.