Hosea 4:7-9

New International Reader's Version

⁷ The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me.
    They have traded their glorious God for that shameful god named Baal.
⁸ They live off the sins of my people.
    And they want them to keep on sinning.
⁹ So here is what I will do.
    I will punish people and priests alike.
I will judge them because of their sinful lives.
    I will pay them back
    for the evil things they have done.