7. Just as Adam disobeyed me, you have broken the covenant I made with you. You were not faithful to me in the land I gave you.
8. Ramoth Gilead is a city where sinful people live. It is stained with footprints of blood.
9. On the road to Shechem, groups of priests act like robbers. They hide and wait to attack people. They murder them and commit other shameful crimes.
10. People of Israel, I have seen a horrible thing in your land. People of Ephraim, you have joined yourselves to other gods. You have made yourselves 'unclean.'
11. "People of Judah, I have appointed a time for you to be destroyed. "My people, I would like to bless you with great success again."