² How long will you people ruin my reputation?
    How long will you make groundless accusations?
    How long will you continue your lies? Interlude

⁷ The more priests there are,
    the more they sin against me.
They have exchanged the glory of God
    for the shame of idols.^[a]

³ But you, O Lord, are a shield around me;
    you are my glory, the one who holds my head high.

¹¹ Has any nation ever traded its gods for new ones,
    even though they are not gods at all?
Yet my people have exchanged their glorious God^[a]
    for worthless idols!

²⁰ They traded their glorious God
    for a statue of a grass-eating bull.

⁶ You will destroy those who tell lies.
    The Lord detests murderers and deceivers.