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IV] :For thy people are as they that strive with the priest.
 * Therefore shalt thou fall in the day,
 * And the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night,
 * And I will destroy thy mother.
 * My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
 * Because thou hast rejected knowledge,
 * I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:
 * Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God,
 * I will also forget thy children.
 * As they were increased, so they sinned against me:
 * Therefore will I change their glory into shame.
 * They eat up the sin of my people,
 * And they set their heart on their iniquity.
 * And there shall be, like people, like priest:
 * And I will punish them for their ways,
 * And reward them their doings.
 * For they shall eat, and not have enough:
 * They shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase:
 * Because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.
 * Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
 * My people ask counsel at their stocks,
 * And their staff declareth unto them:
 * For the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err,
 * And they have gone a whoring from under their God.
 * They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains,