[4:4] The Lord says, “Let no one accuse the people or reprimand them—my complaint is against you priests.
[4:5] Night and day you blunder on, and the prophets do no better than you. I am going to destroy Israel, your mother.
[4:6] My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.
[4:7] “The more of you priests there are, the more you sin against me, and so I will turn your honor into disgrace.
[4:8] You grow rich from the sins of my people, and so you want them to sin more and more.
[4:9] You will suffer the same punishment as the people! I will punish you and make you pay for the evil you do.
[4:10] You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods.”