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Yet no one should bring charges.
    No one should accuse,
    because your people are like those who dispute with a priest.[a]
You will stumble by day,
    and the prophet will also stumble with you by night.
    I will also destroy your mother.
My people have been destroyed because of lack of knowledge.
    Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you
    from serving as a priest for me.
    Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:4 The verse is difficult. The translation follows the Hebrew and Greek texts. Translations that render the third line my contention is with you, O priest emend the text to obtain this rendering. The point of the verse seems to be that it is useless to bring charges against these people, because they would not accept the judgment even of a priest.