Hosea 4:11-13

New Catholic Bible

¹¹     to devote themselves to immorality.

Wine, both old and new,
    deprives my people of understanding.
¹² They consult a piece of wood for advice,
    and their divining rod^[a] provides the answers they seek.
For a spirit of promiscuity has led them astray,
    and their immorality causes them to forsake their God.
¹³ They offer sacrifice on the mountaintops
    and burn incense on the hills,
beneath oak and poplar and terebinth
    because the shade they afford is pleasant.