6 ⁴ What shall I do with you, O E'phraim?
What shall I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
like the dew that goes early away.
6 ⁵ Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets,
I have slain them by the words of my mouth,
and my judgment goes forth as the light.
6 ⁶ For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings.

6 ⁷ But at Adam they transgressed the covenant;
there they dealt faithlessly with me.
6 ⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with blood.
6 ⁹ As robbers lie in wait for a man,
so the priests are banded together;
they murder on the way to Shechem,
yea, they commit villainy.
6 ¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
E'phraim's harlotry is there, Israel is defiled.

6 ¹¹ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.
When I would restore the fortunes of my people, 7 ¹ when I would heal Israel,
the corruption of E'phraim is revealed,
and the wicked deeds of Sama'ria;
for they deal falsely,
the thief breaks in,
and the bandits raid without.
7 ² But they do not consider
that I remember all their evil works.
Now their deeds encompass them,
they are before my face.