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The priest will be just like the people;
    I will punish them for their ways,
        and judge them for their deeds.
10 They will eat but not be satisfied;
    they will have sex like prostitutes,
        but they will not have children,
    because they have rejected the Lord
        to devote themselves to 11 false religious practices.

Description of Israel’s idolatry

    Wine and new wine
        destroy understanding.

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And it will be: Like people, like priests.(A)
    I will punish both of them for their ways
    and repay them for their deeds.(B)

10 “They will eat but not have enough;(C)
    they will engage in prostitution(D) but not flourish,
because they have deserted(E) the Lord
    to give themselves 11 to prostitution;(F)
old wine(G) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(H)

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