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


In Context

5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

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

9 As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing. There is prostitution in Ephraim. 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:8Gilead is a city of wicked men, stained with footprints of 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 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.