Hosea 4:6-8

New Living Translation

⁶ My people are being destroyed
    because 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 God
    for the shame of idols.^[a]

⁸ “When the people bring their sin offerings, the priests get fed.
    So the priests are glad when the people sin!