2. They are always cursing, lying, killing, stealing, and committing adultery. They murder one person after another.
3. So the country is like someone crying for the dead, and all of its people are weak. Even the animals of the field, the birds of the sky, and the fish in the sea are dying.
4. No one should argue or blame another person. Priests, my argument is with you!
5. You priests will fall in the daytime. And at night the prophet will also fall with you. I will also destroy your mother.
6. “My people are destroyed because they have no knowledge. You priests have refused to learn, so I will refuse to let you be priests for me. You have forgotten the law of your God, so I will forget your children.