5. You stumble day and night, and the prophets stumble with you. So I will destroy your mother—
6. my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. “Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law 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 God for something disgraceful.
8. They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness.
9. And it will be: Like people, like priests. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.
10. “They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves
11. to prostitution; old wine and new wine take away their understanding.
12. My people consult a wooden idol, and a diviner’s rod speaks to them. A spirit of prostitution leads them astray; they are unfaithful to their God.