⁸ Gilead is a city of evildoers,^(A)
    stained with footprints of blood.
⁹ As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,^(B)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder^(C) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.^(D)
10 I have seen a horrible^(E) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.^(F)