6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8. Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is defiled with blood.
9. And as bands of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.