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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.

“The more they increased in number,[c]
    the more they sinned against me,
        so I will change their glory into shame.

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  1. Hosea 4:5 I.e. Israel
  2. Hosea 4:6 The Heb. lacks of me
  3. Hosea 4:7 The Heb. lacks in number

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