saying, “Come let us return to the Lord,
he will revive in a couple of days,
Let us know, let us eagerly seek to know the Lord.
What can I make of you, Ephraim!
That is why I have hewn them by the prophets,
for it is love that I delight in and not sacrifice,
But they, after the manner of men, have transgressed the covenant,
Gilead is a city of evildoers,
and as bandits lie in wait for a man,
In Bethel I have seen a horrible thing.
Judah for you also a harvest is set.