⁴ What will I do with you, O Ephraim?
    What will I do with you, O Judah?
Your love is like a morning cloud,
    like the dew that goes away early in the morning.
⁵ Therefore, I have hewn them by the prophets;
    I have killed them by the words of my mouth,
    and my judgment^[a] goes forth like the light.
⁶ Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.