8 Gilead is a city filled with troublemakers.It is stained with bloody footprints.
9 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.
10 “I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel.Ephraim is acting like a prostitute,and Israel is unclean.
11 “Yet, Judah, I have set a harvest time for youwhen I bring my people back from captivity.