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.
12. My people consult their wooden idol and their divining rod informs them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have been a prostitute— out from under their God.
13. They sacrifice on the mountaintops and on the high places they burn incense under oak poplar, and terebinth— for its shade is good. Therefore your daughters are prostitutes and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
14. Will I not punish your daughters for prostitution or your daughters-in-law for adultery? For they consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes. A people without understanding will be thrust down.
15. Though you, Israel, are a prostitute, let Judah not become guilty. But do not come to Gilgal or go up to Beth-aven, and do not swear: ‘As Adonai lives!’
16. For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.
17. Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone!