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Yet let no one find fault, and let no one rebuke; For your people are like those who contend with a priest.

Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.

So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother.

Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I also will forget your children.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

They feed on the sin of My people, And long for their wrongdoing.

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

And it will be, like people, like priest; So I will punish them for their ways And repay them for their deeds.

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.

They will eat, but not have enough; They will play the prostitute, but not increase, Because they gave up devoting themselves to the LORD.

For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord .

Infidelity, wine, and new wine take away the understanding.

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.