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You shall stumble in the daylight,
    while the prophets will stumble with you at night,
    and I will destroy your mother.
My people are perishing
    for want of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I will reject you as my priests.
And since you have forsaken the law of your God,
    I will also reject your children.
The more the number of priests increased,
    the more they sinned against me,
    turning 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