1 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. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 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. 4 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. 5 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. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. 7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. 8 Gilead |is| a city of them that work iniquity, |and is| polluted with blood. 9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, |so| the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness. 10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there |is| the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.