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The Book of Hosea, Chapter 6, Verse 5

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O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness [is] as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
King James Version
Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.
American Standard Version
Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are [as] the light that goeth forth.
New English Translation
Therefore, I will certainly cut you into pieces at the hands of the prophets; I will certainly kill you in fulfillment of my oracles of judgment; for my judgment will come forth like the light of the dawn.
World English Bible
Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
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Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
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And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
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I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
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When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.
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And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
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They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
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They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.