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You shall stumble by day;
    the prophet also shall stumble with you by night;
    and I will destroy (A)your mother.
My people are destroyed (B)for lack of knowledge;
    (C)because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you (D)from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    (E)I also will forget your children.
(F)The more they increased,
    the more they sinned against me;
    (G)I will change their glory into shame.

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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