Hosea 4:2-4

Modern English Version

²Swearing, lying, and killing,
    and stealing and adultery
break out,
    and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
³Therefore the land dries up,
    and everyone who lives in it withers
with the beasts of the field
    and the birds of the sky;
    even the fish of the sea disappear.

⁴Yet let no one contend,
and let none reprove another,
for your people are like those
that contend with a priest.^[a]