5. For this reason have I hewed them by the prophets, I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments shall go forth as the light.
6. For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
7. But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant, there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8. Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.
9. And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.