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You priests are like a gang
    of robbers in ambush.[a]
On the road to Shechem[b]
you murder and commit
    other horrible crimes.
10 I have seen a terrible thing
    in Israel—
you are unfaithful
    and unfit to worship me.
11 People of Judah,
    your time is coming too.

The Lord Wants To Help Israel

I, the Lord, would like to make
my nation prosper again

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Footnotes

  1. 6.9 You … ambush: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 6.9 Shechem: This was one of the towns where people could run for safety, if they had accidentally killed someone (see Joshua 20.1-9).

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)
10 I have seen a horrible(D) thing in Israel:
    There Ephraim is given to prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.(E)

11 “Also for you, Judah,
    a harvest(F) is appointed.

“Whenever I would restore the fortunes(G) of my people,

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