^{3 Ref} And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.

^{4 Ref} O Ephraim, what am I to do to you? O Judah, what am I to do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew which goes early away.

^{5 Ref} So I have had it cut in stones; I gave them teaching by the words of my mouth;

^{6 Ref} Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.