Hosea 4:4-11

Common English Bible

    Listen, priest, I am angry with your people.^[a]
5 You will stumble by day;
        and at nighttime so will your prophet,
        and I will destroy your mother.
⁶ My people are destroyed
        from lack of knowledge.
    Since you have rejected knowledge,
        so I will reject you from serving me as a priest.
    Since you have forgotten the Instruction of your God,
        so also I will forget your children.
⁷ The more they increased,
        the more they sinned against me;
        they exchanged their glory for shame.
⁸ They feed on the sin of my people;
        they set their hearts on evil things.
⁹ 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.