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Like brigands lying in wait
    is the band of priests.
They murder on the road to Shechem,[a]
    indeed they commit a monstrous crime.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing:
    there is found Ephraim’s prostitution,
    Israel is defiled.
11 For you also, Judah,
    a harvest[b] has been appointed!

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Footnotes

  1. 6:9 Shechem: an important ancient religious and political center (Jos 24).
  2. 6:11 Harvest: God’s judgment, when Judah will reap what it has sown.

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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