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Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder on the way by consent; for they commit lewdness.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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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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