Hosea 4:4-11
The Voice
4 Be careful in bringing these charges and contending with one another,
for this is My charge against you,
you priests—I have a divine contention against you!
5 You stumble around during the day, and the prophets stumble with you at night.
And so I will destroy your mother, the land where you live.
6 You’ve forgotten the law of your God: you’ve rejected My judgments.
I’ll reject you because of your lack of knowledge—reject you as My priests;
I’ll even forget your children!
7 The more powerful the priests grew, the more they sinned against Me.
So I’ll turn their honor[a] into shame.
8 Because these priests are allowed to eat the sin offerings,
they actually want the people to sin so they’ll have more meat to eat!
9 And so it’s “like priest, like people”: a low standard for living.
I’ll punish them for this and repay them for what they’ve done:
10 They’ll eat, but they won’t be satisfied; they’ll be active like whores, but have no children
because they’ve rebelled in guarding Me and My ways.
11 Through prostitution, wine, and new wine,
My people have lost their senses;
Footnotes
- 4:7 Other manuscripts read, “they exchanged My honor.”
Hosea 4:4-11
New International Version
4 “But let no one bring a charge,
let no one accuse another,
for your people are like those
who bring charges against a priest.(A)
5 You stumble(B) day and night,
and the prophets stumble with you.
So I will destroy your mother(C)—
6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(D)
“Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(E) of your God,
I also will ignore your children.
7 The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious God[a](F) for something disgraceful.(G)
8 They feed on the sins of my people
and relish their wickedness.(H)
9 And it will be: Like people, like priests.(I)
I will punish both of them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.(J)
Footnotes
- Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory
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