1 “Come! Let’s return to the LORD;

2 After two days he will revive us.

3 Let’s acknowledge the LORD.

4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you?

5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets;

6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice;

7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant.

8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;

9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.

11 “Also, Judah, there is a harvest appointed for you,