As marauders lie in ambush for a victim,(A)
    so do bands of priests;
they murder(B) on the road to Shechem,
    carrying out their wicked schemes.(C)

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

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As bands of robbers lie in wait for a man,
So the company of (A)priests (B)murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they commit (C)lewdness.

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The prophet, along with my God,
    is the watchman over Ephraim,[a]
yet snares(A) await him on all his paths,
    and hostility in the house of his God.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:8 Or The prophet is the watchman over Ephraim, / the people of my God

The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

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The (A)watchman of Ephraim is with my God;
But the prophet is a [a]fowler’s snare in all his ways—
Enmity in the house of his God.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 9:8 One who catches birds in a trap or snare