Treachery and Corruption Condemned

Hosea 6:7-11

But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing: there whoredom is found in Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Also, O Judah, there is a harvest appointed for thee, when I bring back the captivity of my people.