Yet let no one find fault, and let no one rebuke; For your people are like those who contend with a priest.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.

And it will be, like people, like priest; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds.

The People’s Apostasy Rebuked

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, house of Israel! Listen, you of the house of the king! For the judgment applies to you, Because you have been a trap at Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

And as a band of robbers lie in wait for a person, So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem; Certainly they have committed an act of infamy.

The inhabitants of Samaria will fear For the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn for it, And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it, Over its glory, since it has left it.

And the sword will whirl against their cities, And will destroy their oracle priests And consume them, because of their counsels.