Hosea 6:8

Hosea chapter 6 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

King James Version · 1611

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

American Standard Version · 1901

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

v.7But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

v.8This passage

v.9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Hosea 5:1
Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
2 Samuel 20:8
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Hosea 12:11
Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether false; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks; yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Hosea 4:2
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Psalms 10:8
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.