Hosea 4:4-11

Revised Standard Version

⁴ Yet let no one contend,
    and let none accuse,
    for with you is my contention, O priest.^[a]
5 You shall stumble by day,
    the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
    and I will destroy your mother.
⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge;
    because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.

⁷ The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    I will change their glory into shame.
⁸ They feed on the sin of my people;
    they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹ And it shall be like people, like priest;
    I will punish them for their ways,
    and requite them for their deeds.
¹⁰ They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
    they shall play the harlot, but not multiply;
because they have forsaken the Lord
    to cherish harlotry.