Hosea 12:11
Is there iniquity in Gilead?
What it says
Gilead is full of wickedness and Gilgal's sacrificial altars are as worthless as heaps of stones in the fields.
What it is doing
This verse condemns both the moral and cultic centers of the nation as futile and polluted.
In context
1Ephraim feeds on the wind 2The LORD has a charge to bring against Judah. 3In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, 4Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; 5the LORD God of Hosts, 6But you must return to your God; 7A merchant loves to defraud 8And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! 9But I am the LORD your God 10I spoke through the prophets 11Is there iniquity in Gilead? 12Jacob fled to the land of Aram 13But by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, 14Ephraim has provoked bitter anger,