5. So you will stumble in broad daylight,and your false prophets will fall with you in the night.And I will destroy Israel, your mother.
6. My people are being destroyedbecause they don’t know me.Since you priests refuse to know me,I refuse to recognize you as my priests.Since you have forgotten the laws of your God,I will forget to bless your children.
7. The more priests there are,the more they sin against me.They have exchanged the glory of Godfor the shame of idols.
8. “When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed.So the priests are glad when the people sin!
9. ‘And what the priests do, the people also do.’So now I will punish both priests and peoplefor their wicked deeds.
10. They will eat and still be hungry.They will play the prostitute and gain nothing from it,for they have deserted the lord
11. to worship other gods.“Wine has robbed my peopleof their understanding.
12. They ask a piece of wood for advice!They think a stick can tell them the future!Longing after idolshas made them foolish.They have played the prostitute,serving other gods and deserting their God.
13. They offer sacrifices to idols on the mountaintops.They go up into the hills to burn incensein the pleasant shade of oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees.“That is why your daughters turn to prostitution,and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.