⁷ As at Adam,^[a] they have broken the covenant;^(A)
    they were unfaithful^(B) to me there.
⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(C)
    stained with footprints of blood.
⁹ 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)