4. But let no one dispute; let no one argue,for My case is against you priests.
5. You will stumble by day; the prophet will also stumble with you by night.And I will destroy your mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as My priest.Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.
7. The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me.I will change their honor into disgrace.
8. They feed on the sin of My people; they have an appetite for their transgressions.
9. The same judgment will happento both people and priests. I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
10. They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply.For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.
11. Promiscuity, wine, and new winetake away one’s understanding.
12. My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them.For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to their God.
13. They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant.And so your daughters act promiscuouslyand your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14. I will not punish your daughterswhen they act promiscuouslyor your daughters-in-lawwhen they commit adultery,for the men themselves go off with prostitutes and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes. People without discernment are doomed.