7. As at Adam, they have broken the covenant; they were unfaithful to me there.
8. Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.
9. As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
10. I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.