Hosea 6:7
King James Version
“But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.”
Context
4O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.
5Therefore have I hewed by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments the light goeth forth.
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 a city of them that work iniquity, polluted with blood.
9And as troops of robbers wait for a man, 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 the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.