4. Yet let no man strive, and let no man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
5. And thou shalt stumble by day; and the prophet also shall stumble with thee by night: and I will destroy thy mother.
6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will 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 eat the sin of my people, and their soul longeth for their iniquity.
9. And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;
10. and they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: for they have left off taking heed to Jehovah.
11. Fornication, and wine, and new wine take away the heart.
12. My people ask counsel of their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredoms causeth them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God