TSK · Hosea 4:6

Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? Did I give to the house of your father all the offerings of the children of Israel made by fire?

They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the army of the sky, and served Baal.

But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.

The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won't forget your law.

They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, "Read this, please;" and he says, "I can't read."

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me," says Yahweh.

My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.

"Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.

Yahweh said to me, "Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit."

"Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'

He will come and destroy these farmers, and will give the vineyard to others." When they heard it, they said, "May it never be!"