Indictments Against the Cities of Israel and Judah

7 At Adam they broke the covenant;

Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

8 Gilead is a city full of evildoers;

its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

9 The company of priests is like a gang of robbers,

lying in ambush to pounce on a victim.

They commit murder on the road to Shechem;

they have done heinous crimes!

10 I have seen a disgusting thing in the temple of Israel:

there Ephraim practices temple prostitution

and Judah defiles itself.

11 I have appointed a time to reap judgment for you also, O Judah!