As at Adam,[a] they have broken the covenant;(A)
    they were unfaithful(B) to me there.
Gilead is a city of evildoers,(C)
    stained with footprints of blood.
As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(D)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(E) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(F)
10 I have seen a horrible(G) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(H)

11 “Also for you, Judah,
    a harvest(I) is appointed.

“Whenever I would restore the fortunes(J) of my people,

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings

But (A)like Adam they (B)transgressed the covenant;
    (C)there they dealt faithlessly with me.
(D)Gilead is a city of evildoers,
    (E)tracked with blood.
As robbers (F)lie in wait for a man,
    so the priests band together;
they murder on the way to (G)Shechem;
    they commit villainy.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing;
    (H)Ephraim's whoredom is there; (I)Israel is defiled.

11 For you also, O (J)Judah, (K)a harvest is appointed.

When (L)I restore the fortunes of my people,

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But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

11 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.

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