What does Hosea 6:8 mean?

Hosea 6:8 highlights themes such as iniquity, corruption, judgment when read in context.

How should I apply Hosea 6:8 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

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

7But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

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

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

10I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

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Matthew 23:27
Jesus condemns hypocrisy, similar to the condemnation of Gilead's iniquity.
Isaiah 1:21
Isaiah also speaks of a once faithful city now filled with corruption.
Micah 3:10
Micah addresses similar themes of corruption in Israel.