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Their Wicked Deeds Are Constantly before My Eyes

But in their land[a] they broke the covenant;
    it was there that they were unfaithful to me.
Gilead[b] is a city of evildoers,
    stained with bloody footprints.
Like robbers waiting in ambush,
    priests are banded together.
They commit murder on the road to Shechem,
    perpetrating monstrous crimes.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:7 Their land: some think that Adam, a place on the right bank of the Jordan, is meant.
  2. Hosea 6:8 Gilead: across the Jordan.