Hosea 4:4–11

4  sYet let no one contend,

and let none accuse,

for with you is tmy contention, O priest.1

5  You shall stumble by day;

the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;

and I will destroy uyour mother.

6  My people are destroyed vfor lack of knowledge;

wbecause you have rejected knowledge,

I reject you xfrom being a priest to me.

And since you have forgotten the law of your God,

yI also will forget your children.

7  zThe more they increased,

the more they sinned against me;

aI will change their glory into shame.

8  bThey feed on the sin2 of my people;

they are greedy for their iniquity.

9  cAnd it shall be like people, like priest;

I will punish them for their ways

and repay them for their deeds.

10  dThey shall eat, but not be satisfied;

they shall play the whore, but not multiply,

because they have forsaken the Lord

to cherish 11 whoredom, wine, and new wine,

which etake away the understanding.