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The Book of Hosea, Chapter 6, Verse 7

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6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
King James Version
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
American Standard Version
But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
New English Translation
Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!
World English Bible
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
8
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
11
Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I returned the captivity of my people.
1
When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, [and] the troop of robbers spoileth without.
2
And they consider not in their hearts [that] I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
3
They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.
4
They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
5
In the day of our king the princes have made [him] sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.
6
For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.