Hosea 6:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸Everyone in Gilead is evil;
your hands are stained
    with the blood of victims.^[a]
⁹You priests are like a gang
    of robbers in ambush.^[b]
On the road to Shechem^[c]
you murder and commit
    other horrible crimes.
¹⁰I have seen a terrible thing
    in Israel—
you are unfaithful
    and unfit to worship me.

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Footnotes

6.8 your hands … victims: This may refer to child sacrifice.
6.9 You … ambush: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
6.9 Shechem: This was one of the towns where people could run for safety, if they had accidentally killed someone (see Joshua 20.1-9).