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¹ Hear the word of Adonai,
people of Isra'el!
For Adonai has a grievance
against the inhabitants of the land:
there is no truth, no faithful love
or knowledge of God in the land;
² only swearing and lying, killing and stealing
and committing adultery!
They break all bounds, with one blood crime
following another.
³ Therefore the land mourns,
and everyone living there languishes,
wild animals too, and the birds in the air;
even the fish in the sea are removed.
⁴ But no one should quarrel or rebuke,
because your people are having to quarrel with the cohen.
⁵ Therefore you will stumble by day,
and the prophet will stumble with you at night.

"I will destroy your mother.
⁶ My people are destroyed for want of knowledge.
Because you rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you as cohen for me.
Because you forgot the Torah of your God,
I will also forget your children.
⁷ The more they increased in number,
the more they sinned against me.
I will change their glory into shame.
⁸ They feed on the sin of my people
and are greedy for their crimes.
⁹ But the cohen will fare
no better than the people;
I will punish him for his ways
and pay him back for his deeds.
¹⁰ They will eat but not have enough
and consort with whores but have no children,
because they stopped listening to Adonai.
¹¹ Whoring and wine, both old and new,
take away my people's wits.
¹² My people consult their piece of wood,
their diviner's wand speaks to them;
for the spirit of whoring makes them err,
they go off whoring, deserting their God.
¹³ They sacrifice on the mountain peaks
and offer incense on the hills
under oaks, poplars and pistachio trees;
because they give good shade.
Therefore your daughters behave like whores,
And your daughters-in-law commit adultery.
¹⁴ I won't punish your daughters when they act like whores,
or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery;
because the men are themselves going off with whores
and sacrificing with prostitutes.
Yes, a people without understanding
will come to ruin."

¹⁵ If you, Isra'el, prostitute yourself,
still Y'hudah has no need to incur such guilt.
Don't go to Gilgal or up to Beit-Aven,
and don't swear, "As Adonai lives."
¹⁶ For Isra'el is stubborn as a stubborn cow;
will Adonai now feed them like a lamb in a big pasture?
¹⁷ Efrayim is joined to idols;
let him alone!
¹⁸ When they finish carousing, they start their whoring;
their rulers deeply love dishonor.
¹⁹ The wind will carry them off in its wings
and their sacrifices bring them nothing but shame.