Holy Scripture
Hosea 4:6
A church father on this verse
“"At night, I made your mother be silent, my people have become silent, because they have no knowledge: for you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you, and you will not serve as a priest to me; and you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons." LXX: "I have compared thy mother to the night,…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6My people are like as if they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt not minister as priest to me: and as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
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4that neither anyone may plead, nor anyone reprove another: but my people are as a priest spoken against.
5Therefore they shall fall by day, and the prophet with thee shall fall: I have compared thy mother unto night.
— Hosea 4:6 —
7According to their multitude, so they sinned against me: I will turn their glory into shame.
8They will devour the sins of my people, and will set their hearts on their iniquities.