Hosea 4:4-11

Modern English Version

⁴ Yet let no one contend,
    and let none reprove another,
for your people are like those
    that contend with a priest.^[a]
5 You will stumble in the day,
    and the prophet also will stumble with you in the night,
and I will destroy your mother.
⁶     My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I will reject you from being My priest.
And because you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I will also forget your children.
⁷ As they increased, so they sinned against Me.
    I will change^[b] their glory^[c] into shame.
⁸ They feed upon the sin of My people,
    and they are greedy for their iniquity.
⁹ It will be like people, like priest.
    I will punish them for their ways
    and reward them for their deeds.

¹⁰ They will eat, but not be satisfied;
    they will play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
by devoting themselves to ¹¹     harlotry;
wine and new wine
    take away understanding.