5. That is why I have sent my prophets to you with my message of judgement and destruction. What I want from you is plain and clear:
6. I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.
7. “But as soon as they entered the land at Adam, they broke the covenant I had made with them.
8. Gilead is a city full of evil people and murderers.