6. I want your loyalty, not your sacrifices.I want you to know me, not to give me burnt offerings.
7. “Like Adam, you rejected the promise.You were unfaithful to me.
8. Gilead is a city filled with troublemakers.It is stained with bloody footprints.
9. The priests are like gangs of robbers who lie in ambush for a person.They murder on the road to Shechem.Certainly, they have committed a crime.
10. “I have seen horrible things in the nation of Israel.Ephraim is acting like a prostitute,and Israel is unclean.
11. “Yet, Judah, I have set a harvest time for youwhen I bring my people back from captivity.