4 “Ephrayim, what would I do with you? Yehuḏah, what would I do with you? For your trustworthiness is like a morning cloud, and like the early dew it goes away.
5 “Therefore I have hewn them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of My mouth. And my right-rulings break forth as the light.
6 “For I delight in kindness and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than burnt offerings.
7 “But like Aḏam they transgressed the covenant. There they acted treacherously against Me.
8 “Gil‛aḏ is a city of workers of wickedness – tracked up with blood.
9 “And as bands of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way to Sheḵem, for they have done wickedness.
10 “I have seen a horrible matter in the house of Yisra’ĕl: the whoring of Ephrayim is there, Yisra’ĕl is defiled.