6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7 But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
9 And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.
10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel: the fornications of Ephraim there: Israel is defiled.
11 And thou also, O Juda, set thee a harvest, when I shall bring back captivity of my people.