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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.
The more they increased, the more they sinned against me.
    I changed their glory into shame.[a]

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  1. Hosea 4:7 A Hebrew variant is they changed my glory for something shameful.

You stumble(A) day and night,
    and the prophets stumble with you.
So I will destroy your mother(B)
    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(C)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(D) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.
The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God[a](E) for something disgraceful.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory