(A)Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with (B)bloody footprints.
And as (C)raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests (D)murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed [a](E)crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a (F)horrible thing;
Ephraim’s (G)harlotry is there, Israel has defiled itself.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:9 Or lewdness

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

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