“Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children.

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

By swearing and lying, Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed.

So you will stumble by day, And the prophet also will stumble with you by night; And I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no...

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David Guzik commentary on Hosea 4, where God charges Israel about their sin, and a warning to Judah not to follow Israel's sinful ways.