Young's Literal Translation YLT
New International Version NIV
8 Gilead [is] a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.
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Gilead is a city of evildoers, stained with footprints of blood.
9 And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder -- the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.
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As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes.
10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There [is] the whoredom of Ephraim -- defiled is Israel.
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I have seen a horrible thing in Israel: There Ephraim is given to prostitution, Israel is defiled.
11 Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back [to] the captivity of My people!
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“Also for you, Judah, a harvest is appointed. “Whenever I would restore the fortunes of my people,
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