1Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and whoring, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
3Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall be cut off, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the heaven, and also the fishes of the sea shall be taken away.
4Yet let none rebuke, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that rebuke the Priest.
5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the Prophet shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.
8They eat up the sins of my people, and lift up their minds in their iniquity.
9And there shall be like people like priest: for I will visit their ways upon them, and reward them their deeds.
10For they shall eat, and not have enough, they shall commit adultery, and shall not increase, because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
11Whoredom, and wine, and new wine take away their heart.
12My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff teacheth them: for the spirit of fornications hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
13They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills under the oaks, and the poplar tree, and the elm, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall be harlots, and your spouses shall be whores.
14I will not visit your daughters when they are harlots: nor your spouses, when they are whores: for they themselves are separated with harlots, and sacrifice with whores: therefore the people that doth not understand, shall fall.
15Though thou Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah sin: come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth Aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.
16For Israel is rebellious as an unruly heifer. Now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
17Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
18Their drunkenness stinketh: they have committed whoredom: their rulers love to say with shame, Bring ye.
19The wind hath bound them up in her wings, and they shall be ashamed of their sacrifices.