What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? what shall I do to thee, O Juda? your mercy is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in the morning. 5For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light. 6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts. 7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood. 9And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out of Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness. 10I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled. 11And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back the captivity of my people.