8Gilead is a city of wicked men, stained with footprints of blood.


In Context

5 Therefore I cut you in pieces with my prophets, I killed you with the words of my mouth; my judgments flashed like lightning upon you.

6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

7 Like Adam, they have broken the covenant- they were unfaithful to me there.

8 Gilead is a city of wicked men, stained with footprints of blood.

9 As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

10 I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel. There Ephraim is given to prostitution and Israel is defiled.

Hosea 6:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead [is] a city of them that work iniquity, [and is] polluted with blood.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is stained with blood.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.