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You trip and fall day and night.
    And the prophets fall down along with you.
So I will destroy your nation.
    She is the one who gave birth to you.
My people are destroyed
    because they do not know me.

“You priests have refused to obey me.
    So I will refuse to accept you as my priests.
You have not paid any attention to my law.
    So I will not let your children be my priests.
The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me.
    They have traded their glorious God for that shameful god named Baal.

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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