King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 6:8
“Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.”
Verse in context — Hosea 6
6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8
Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.
9
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
10
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there [is] the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
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God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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