4 What am I going to do with you, O Ephraim?What am I going to do with you, O Judah?For your faithfulness is as fleeting as the morning mist;it disappears as quickly as dawn’s dew!
5 Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets;I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment;for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.
6 For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice;I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.
7 At Adam they broke the covenant;Oh how they were unfaithful to me!
8 Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!
9 The company of priests is like a gang of robbers,lying in ambush to pounce on a victim.They commit murder on the road to Shechem;they have done heinous crimes!
10 I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel:there Ephraim practices temple prostitutionand Judah defiles itself.