6 My people are destroyed because they do not know me. "You priests have refused to obey me. So I will refuse to accept you as my priests. You have not paid any attention to my law. So I will not let your children be my priests.
7 The more priests there are, the more they sin against me. They have traded their glorious God for that shameful god Baal.
8 They live off the sins of my people. And they want them to keep on sinning.
9 So here is what I will do. I will punish people and priests alike. I will judge them because of their sinful lives. I will pay them back for the evil things they have done.
10 "My people will eat. But they will not have enough. They will have sex with prostitutes. But they will not have any children. That is because they have deserted me.
11 They have sex with prostitutes. They drink old wine and fresh wine. When they do those things, it destroys their ability to understand.
12 They ask a wooden statue of a god for advice. They expect to get answers from a stick of wood. They act like prostitutes. That leads them down the wrong path. I am their God. But they are not faithful to me.