Hosea 6:8-10

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⁸Gilead is a city full of evildoers;^[a]
its streets are stained with bloody footprints!^[b]
⁹The company of priests is like a gang of robbers,
lying in ambush to pounce on a victim.
They commit murder on the road to Shechem;
they have done heinous crimes!
¹⁰I have seen a disgusting thing in the house of Israel:
there Ephraim commits prostitution with other gods,^[c]
and Israel defiles itself.

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Hosea 6:8 tn The participle phrase פֹּעֲלֵי אָוֶן (poʿale ʾaven, “workers of wickedness”) emphasizes continual (uninterrupted) or habitual action. This particular use of the participle is an ironic play on the professional occupation function (see IBHS 615 §37.2c). In effect, the major “professional guild” in Gilead is working evil; the people are producers of evil!
Hosea 6:8 tn Heb “it is foot-tracked with blood”; cf. NAB “tracked with (+ “footprints of” in NLT) blood.”
Hosea 6:10 tn “with other gods” added for clarity.

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Hosea 6:8-10

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