28:006:005 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.
28:006:006 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
God more than burnt offerings.
28:006:007 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
they dealt treacherously against me.
28:006:008 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted
with blood.
28:006:009 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
28:006:010 I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is
the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
28:006:011 Also, O Judah, he hath set an harvest for thee, when I
returned the captivity of my people.
28:007:001 When I would have healed Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they commit falsehood; and the thief cometh in, and the troop of robbers spoileth without.
28:007:002 And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
28:007:003 They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.