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Yet, let no one contend,
    and let no one accuse,
for with you, O priest, is my contention.[a]
You will stumble by day,
    and the priest also will stumble
        with you at night.
And I will destroy your mother;
    My people are destroyed
        for lack of knowledge;
because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from acting as a priest for me.[b]
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I will also forget your children.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:4 The Hebrew is unclear; the NASB translates “For your people are like those who contend with the priest”
  2. Hosea 4:6 Or “to me”
  3. Hosea 4:6 Hebrew “sons”