4. ‘But let no one bring a charge,let no one accuse another,for your people are like thosewho bring charges against a priest.
5. You stumble day and night,and the prophets stumble with you.So I will destroy your mother –
6. my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.‘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.
7. The more priests there were,the more they sinned against me;they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful.
8. They feed on the sins of my peopleand relish their wickedness.