Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, \if\ we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter \and\ former rain unto the earth. 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. 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. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. Gilead \is\ a city of them that work iniquity, \and is\ polluted with blood. And as troops of robbers wait for a man, \so\ the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there \is\ the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.