Add parallel Print Page Options

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity;
    it is stained with blood.
As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man,
    so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem,
    committing shameful crimes.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing.
    There is prostitution in Ephraim.
    Israel is defiled.

Read full chapter

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)

Read full chapter