6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
7. The more they increased and multiplied [in prosperity and power], the more 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; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their doings.
10. For they shall eat and not have enough; they shall play the harlot and beget no increase, because they have forsaken the Lord for harlotry;
11. Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mind and the spiritual understanding.
12. My people [habitually] ask counsel of their [senseless] wood [idols], and their staff [of wood] gives them oracles and instructs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray and they have played the harlot, withdrawing themselves from subjection to their God.
13. They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains, and they burn incense upon the hills and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because there the shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot and your sons' wives commit adultery.