“As gangs of robbers wait to ambush a man, so the company of priests murder on the path toward Shechem, committing shameful crimes.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Hosea 6 contains 11 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.