6. So you, by the help of your God, return;Observe mercy and justice,And wait on your God continually.
7. “A cunning Canaanite!Deceitful scales are in his hand;He loves to oppress.
8. And Ephraim said,‘Surely I have become rich,I have found wealth for myself;In all my laborsThey shall find in me no iniquity that is sin.’
9. “But I am the Lord your God,Ever since the land of Egypt;I will again make you dwell in tents,As in the days of the appointed feast.
10. I have also spoken by the prophets,And have multiplied visions;I have given symbols through the witness of the prophets.”
11. Though Gilead has idols—Surely they are vanity—Though they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal,Indeed their altars shall be heaps in the furrows of the field.