2. Curse, deceive, murder, steal, commit adultery! They practice violence, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
3. Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone dwelling in it will languish along with the beasts of the field and the flying creatures of the sky— even the fish of the sea will be removed.
4. Yet let no one dispute and let no one argue. Your people are like a kohen who makes quarrels.
5. So you will stumble by day. Also a prophet will stumble with you by night, when I destroy your mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being My kohen. Since you forgot the Torah of your God, just so I will forget your children.
7. The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me. I will change their glory into disgrace.
8. They feed on the sin of My people and relish their iniquity.
9. But it will be like people, like kohen. So I will punish them for their ways, and repay them for their deeds.
10. They have eaten but will not be satisfied. They have fornicated but will not increase. For they stopped giving heed to Adonai.
11. Prostitution and wine—even new wine— it takes away understanding.