Hosea 4:4-11

Lexham English Bible

⁴ Yet, let no one contend,
    and let no one accuse,
for with you, O priest, is my contention.^[a]
5 You will stumble by day,
    and the priest also will stumble
        with you at 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 acting as a priest for me.^[b]
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I will also forget your children.^[c]
7 When they became many, their sin increased against me;
    they changed^[d] their glory into shame.
⁸ They feed on the sin of my people,^[e]
    they are greedy^[f] for their iniquity.
⁹ And it will be like people, like priest;
I will punish them^[g] for their^[h] ways,
    and I will requite them^[i] for their^[j] deeds.
¹⁰ They will eat and not be satisfied;
    they will play the whore and not multiply,
because they have forsaken Yahweh to devote themselves to
¹¹     whoredom.^[k]
Wine and new wine take away the understanding.^[l]