¹ `Come, and we turn back unto Jehovah, For He hath torn, and He doth heal us, He doth smite, and He bindeth us up.

² He doth revive us after two days, In the third day He doth raise us up, And we live before Him.

³ And we know -- we pursue to know Jehovah, As the dawn prepared is His going forth, And He cometh in as a shower to us, As gathered rain -- sprinkling earth.'

⁴ What do I do to thee, O Ephraim? What do I do to thee, O Judah? Your goodness [is] as a cloud of the morning, And as dew rising early -- going.

⁵ Therefore I have hewed by prophets, I have slain them by sayings of My mouth, And My judgments to the light goeth forth.

⁶ For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

⁷ And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

⁸ Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

⁹ And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

¹⁰ In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.

¹¹ Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!

¹ And Jehovah saith unto me: `Again, go, love a woman, loved of a friend, and an adulteress, like the loved of Jehovah, the sons of Israel, and they are turning unto other gods, and are lovers of grape-cakes.'

² And I buy her to me for fifteen silverlings, and a homer and a letech of barley;

³ and I say unto her, `Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also [am] for thee.'

⁴ For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

⁵ Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.