Hosea 4
New International Version
The Charge Against Israel

4 Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites,
because the Lord has a charge(A) to bring against you who live in the land:(B)

“There is no faithfulness,(C) no love, no acknowledgment(D) of God in the land.(E)

2 There is only cursing,[a] lying(F) and murder,(G)
stealing(H) and adultery;(I)
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.(J)

3 Because of this the land dries up,(K) and all who live in it waste away;(L) the beasts of the field, the birds in the sky and the fish in the sea are swept away.(M)

4 “But let no one bring a charge,
let no one accuse another,for your people are like thosewho bring charges against a priest.(N)

5 You stumble(O) day and night,
and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother(P)—

6 my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(Q) “Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(R) of your God, I also will ignore your children.

7 The more priests there were,
the more they sinned against me;
they exchanged their glorious Godb for something disgraceful.(T)

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