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My people will be destroyed
    because they have no knowledge.
You priests have refused to learn.
    So I will refuse to let you be priests to me.
You have forgotten the teachings of your God.
    So I will reject your children.
The more priests there are,
    the more they sin against me.
I will take away their honor
    and give them nothing but shame.
The priests live off the sin offerings of the people.
    So they want the people to sin more and more.

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    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(A)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(B) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.
The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God[a](C) for something disgraceful.(D)
They feed on the sins of my people
    and relish their wickedness.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory