Hosea 4:10-14

New International Reader's Version

¹⁰ “My people will eat.
    But they will not have enough.
They will have sex with prostitutes.
    But they will not have any children.
    That’s because they have deserted me.
They have sex ¹¹ with prostitutes.
    They drink old wine and fresh wine.
Their drinking has destroyed their ability to understand.
¹² My people ask a wooden statue of a god for advice.
    They get answers from a stick of wood.
They are as unfaithful as prostitutes.
    They are not faithful to their God.
¹³ They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops.
    They burn offerings on the hills.
They worship under oak, poplar and terebinth trees.
    The trees provide plenty of shade.
So your daughters become prostitutes.
    And your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

¹⁴ “I will not punish your daughters
    when they become prostitutes.
I will not judge your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery.
After all, the men themselves have sex with sinful women.
    They offer sacrifices where temple prostitutes earn their living.
    People who can’t understand will be destroyed!