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“Like Adam, you rejected the promise.[a]
You were unfaithful to me.
Gilead is a city filled with troublemakers.
It is stained with bloody footprints.
The priests are like gangs of robbers who lie in ambush for a person.
They murder on the road to Shechem.
Certainly, they have committed a crime.

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  1. 6:7 Or “You have walked all over my promise as if it were dirt.”

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)

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Footnotes

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