¹⁴ Leave them; they are blind guides.^[a](A) If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”^(B)

⁶ But did not my words^(A) and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your ancestors?^(B)

“Then they repented and said, ‘The Lord Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices deserve,^(C) just as he determined to do.’”^(D)

⁴ Then the Lord said to Hosea, “Call him Jezreel,^(A) because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.

²⁶ Her priests do violence to my law^(A) and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common;^(B) they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean;^(C) and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned^(D) among them.^{(E) 27} Her officials^(F) within her are like wolves^(G) tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people^(H) to make unjust gain.^{(I) 28} Her prophets whitewash^(J) these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations.^(K) They say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says’—when the Lord has not spoken.^{(L) 29} The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery;^(M) they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the foreigner,^(N) denying them justice.^(O)

³⁰ “I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall^(P) and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.^{(Q) 31} So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,^(R) bringing down^(S) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.^(T)”