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So it will be the same for people as for priests.
    I will punish them for their ways.
    I will repay them for their deeds.
10 They will eat, but not be satisfied.
    They will engage in sexual immorality, but not increase.
    This will take place because they have abandoned the Lord to devote themselves to 11 sexual sin.[a]
    Wine and new wine take away their understanding.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:11 Or prostitution
  2. Hosea 4:11 The proper dividing point between verses 10 and 11 is uncertain. Though the words sexual sin are in verse 11 in the Hebrew text, these words belong with verse 10.