6. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
7. The more they increased and multiplied [in prosperity and power], the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame.
8. They feed on the sin of My people and set their heart on their iniquity.
9. And it shall be: Like people, like priest; I will punish them for their ways and repay them for their doings.
10. For they shall eat and not have enough; they shall play the harlot and beget no increase, because they have forsaken the Lord for harlotry;
11. Harlotry and wine and new wine take away the heart and the mind and the spiritual understanding.
12. My people [habitually] ask counsel of their [senseless] wood [idols], and their staff [of wood] gives them oracles and instructs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray and they have played the harlot, withdrawing themselves from subjection to their God.