6. For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice,and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
7. But they, at Adam, violated the covenant;there they betrayed me.
8. Gilead is a city of evildoers,tracked with blood.
9. Like brigands lying in waitis the band of priests.They murder on the road to Shechem,indeed they commit a monstrous crime.
10. In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing:there is found Ephraim’s prostitution,Israel is defiled.