5. the Lord God Almighty, the Lord is his name!
6. But you must return to your God; maintain love and justice, and wait for your God always.
7. The merchant uses dishonest scales and loves to defraud.
8. Ephraim boasts, “I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity or sin.”
9. “I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt; I will make you live in tents again, as in the days of your appointed festivals.
10. I spoke to the prophets, gave them many visions and told parables through them.”
11. Is Gilead wicked? Its people are worthless! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Their altars will be like piles of stones on a plowed field.