Hosea 4:5-15

5So you will stumble in broad daylight, and your false prophets will fall with you in the night. And I will destroy Israel, your mother.

6My 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.

7The more priests there are, the more they sin against me. They have exchanged the glory of God for 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 people for their wicked deeds.

10They will eat and still be hungry. They will play the prostitute and gain nothing from it, for they have deserted the Lord

11to worship other gods. “Wine has robbed my people of their understanding.

12They ask a piece of wood for advice! They think a stick can tell them the future! Longing after idols has made them foolish. They have played the prostitute, serving other gods and deserting their God.

13They offer sacrifices to idols on the mountaintops. They go up into the hills to burn incense in the pleasant shade of oaks, poplars, and terebinth trees. “That is why your daughters turn to prostitution, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

14But why should I punish them for their prostitution and adultery? For your men are doing the same thing, sinning with whores and shrine prostitutes. O foolish people! You refuse to understand, so you will be destroyed.

15“Though you, Israel, are a prostitute, may Judah not be guilty of such things. Do not join the false worship at Gilgal or Beth-aven, and do not take oaths there in the Lord’s name.