“But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.”
Hosea 6:7 (KJV) |
Hosea 6:7
From Hosea 6, in the Book of Hosea (Old Testament).
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5
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.
6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
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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.
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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.