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You will be ruined in the day,
    and your prophets will be ruined with you in the night.
I will also destroy your mother.[a]
My people will be destroyed,
    because they have no knowledge.
You have refused to learn,
    so I will refuse to let you be priests to me.
You have forgotten the teachings of your God,
    so I will forget your children.
The more priests there are,
    the more they sin against me.
I will take away their honor
    and give them shame.

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  1. 4:5 mother Refers to the nation of Israel here.

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