King James Version (KJV)

Hosea 6:7

“But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.”

Verse in context — Hosea 6

Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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

Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.

And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.