Hosea 6:4-Hosea 7:2 - The Lord's First Lament
4 What shall I do to thee, O Ephraim? What shall I do to thee, O Judah? and your kindness as the cloud of the morning, and as the dew being early went away. 5 For this I cut off by the prophets; I slew them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments the light going forth. 6 For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
7 And they as man passed by the covenant: there they acted faithlessly against me. 8 Gilead a city working vanity, defrauding from blood. 9 As troops waiting for a man, the company of priests will break in pieces the way with the shoulder: for they did wickedness. 10 In the house of Israel I saw something horrible: there the fornications to Ephraim, Israel was defiled. 11 Also, O Judah, he set a harvest for thee in my turning back the captivity of my people.
1 As I healed to Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, and the evils of Shomeron: for they did falsehood, and the thief will come in, and the troop invaded without 2 And they will not say to their heart, I remembered all their evil: now their doings surrounded them; they were before my face.