9And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder — the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.


In Context

6 For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

7 And they, as Adam, transgressed a covenant, There they dealt treacherously against me.

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

10 In the house of Israel I have seen a horrible thing, There is the whoredom of Ephraim — defiled is Israel.

11 Also, O Judah, appointed is a harvest to thee, In My turning back to the captivity of My people!

Hosea 6:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, [so] the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:9As marauders lie in ambush for a man, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:9And like the jaws of highway robbers, they conspire with the priests who murder in the way those that pass out Sichem: for they have wrought wickedness.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers lie in wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way of Shechem; yea, they commit lewdness.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:9As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.