Come, let us return to the Lord. He tore us apart and will heal us. He will wrap himself around us even if he hurts us.

In two days he will awaken us, and on the third day he will raise us up, and we will live before him.

We must know the Lord and strive to seek knowledge of him. He appears like morning light, and he will come to us like sweet rain, like spring rain that moistens the fields.

The Lord said, What shall I do to you, O Ephraim? Judah, what can I do to you? For your goodness is like the morning mist, and like the fleeting dew.

Therefore, through the prophets, I have cut them down, and I have slain them with the words of my mouth, and my judgment is as light.

I love goodness (or compassion), I do not love sacrifice, I love knowing God more than burnt offerings.

But they have broken the covenant like Adam, acting deceitfully against me in the land.

Gilead is the city of evildoers. Stained with blood.

Bandits in groups, how to ambush and kill. The priests formed an alliance and slaughtered on the way to Shechem, committing evil.

In the house of Israel, I have seen detestable things. There is debauchery with Ephraim, and Israel is defiled.

Judah, when I bring back the captives, there will be a designated end for you.