² How long will you people turn my glory^(A) into shame?^(B)
    How long will you love delusions and seek false gods^[a]?^[b](C)

²² “How long will you who are simple^(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate^(B) knowledge?

⁷ The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God^[a](A) for something disgraceful.^(B)

³ But you, Lord, are a shield^(A) around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high.^(B)

¹¹ Has a nation ever changed its gods?
    (Yet they are not gods^(A) at all.)
But my people have exchanged their glorious^(B) God
    for worthless idols.

²⁰ They exchanged their glorious God^(A)
    for an image of a bull, which eats grass.

⁶     you destroy those who tell lies.^(A)
The bloodthirsty and deceitful
    you, Lord, detest.