6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain to the earth.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do to you? O Judah, what shall I do to you? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goes away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and your judgments are as the light that goes forth.
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
6:6For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6:6For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.