⁴ What am I going to do with you, Ephraim?^(A)
What am I going to do with you, Judah?
Your loyalty is like the morning mist^(B)
and like the early dew that vanishes.

⁵ This is why I have used the prophets
to cut them down;^[a](A)
I have killed them with the words of My mouth.
My judgment strikes like lightning.^[b]