Hosea 4:6-12

English Standard Version

⁶My people are destroyed ^(A)for lack of knowledge;
    ^(B)because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you ^(C)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    ^(D)I also will forget your children.

⁷^(E)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    ^(F)I will change their glory into shame.
⁸^(G)They feed on the sin^[a] of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹^(H)And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.
¹⁰^(I)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
    they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
    to cherish ¹¹whoredom, wine, and new wine,
    which ^(J)take away the understanding.
¹²My people ^(K)inquire of a piece of wood,
    and their walking staff gives them oracles.
For ^(L)a spirit of whoredom has led them astray,
    and they have left their God to play the whore.