6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
7. As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.
8. They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
9. And it shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and will reward them their doings.
10. And they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
11. Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.
12. My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13. They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters commit whoredom, and your brides commit adultery.
14. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for they themselves go apart with whores, and they sacrifice with the harlots: and the people that doth not understand shall be overthrown.
15. Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth-aven, nor swear, As the Lord liveth.
16. For Israel hath behaved himself stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer: now will the Lord feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17. Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.
18. Their drink is become sour: they commit whoredom continually; her rulers dearly love shame.