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“Let no one fight or bring charges against another,
    for my dispute is with you, priest.
So you will stumble during the day,
    the prophet also will stumble with you at night,
        and I will destroy your mother.[a]
My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me.[b]
    Because you rejected that knowledge,
        I will reject you as a priest for me.
Since you forget the Law of your God,
    I will also forget your children.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:5 I.e. Israel
  2. Hosea 4:6 The Heb. lacks of me

“But let no one bring a charge,
    let no one accuse another,
for your people are like those
    who bring charges against a priest.(A)
You stumble(B) day and night,
    and the prophets stumble with you.
So I will destroy your mother(C)
    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(D)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(E) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.

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