¹¹ Is Gilead wicked?^(A)
    Its people are worthless!
Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal?^(B)
    Their altars will be like piles of stones
    on a plowed field.^(C)

¹¹ “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings,
    these have become altars for sinning.^(A)

⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(A)
    stained with footprints of blood.

¹⁵ “Though you, Israel, commit adultery,
    do not let Judah become guilty.

“Do not go to Gilgal;^(A)
    do not go up to Beth Aven.^[a](B)
    And do not swear, ‘As surely as the Lord lives!’^(C)

¹⁵ “Because of all their wickedness in Gilgal,^(A)
    I hated them there.
Because of their sinful deeds,^(B)
    I will drive them out of my house.
I will no longer love them;^(C)
    all their leaders are rebellious.^(D)

10 Israel was a spreading vine;^(A)
    he brought forth fruit for himself.
As his fruit increased,
    he built more altars;^(B)
as his land prospered,^(C)
    he adorned his sacred stones.^(D)

⁸ “Those who cling to worthless idols^(A)
    turn away from God’s love for them.

⁵     do not seek Bethel,
do not go to Gilgal,^(A)
    do not journey to Beersheba.^(B)
For Gilgal will surely go into exile,
    and Bethel will be reduced to nothing.^[a](C)”