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Hosea 4:6

Bible in Basic English 1965

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

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Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;

But if not, they come to their end, and give up their breath without knowledge.

My passion has overcome me; because my haters are turned away from your words.

RESH O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,

The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

For you are the saviour of those who are in trouble; but eyes full of pride will be made low.

The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

Further, without knowledge desire is not good; and he who is over-quick in acting goes out of the right way.

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

For you have not given honour to the God of your salvation, and have not kept in mind the Rock of your strength; for this cause you made a garden of Adonis, and put in it the vine-cuttings of a strange god;

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

And further, these are uncertain through wine, and have gone out of the right way through strong drink: the priest and the prophet are uncertain through strong drink, they are overcome by wine, they have gone out of the way through strong drink; their vision is false, they go wrong in their decisions.

And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.

Come together, even come near, you nations who are still living: they have no knowledge who take up their image of wood, and make prayer to a god in whom is no salvation.

For this cause my people are taken away as prisoners into strange countries for need of knowledge: and their rulers are wasted for need of food, and their loud-voiced feasters are dry for need of water.

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.

When I gave them food they were full, and their hearts were full of pride, and they did not keep me in mind.

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.

My people get knowledge from their tree, and their rod gives them news; for a false spirit is the cause of their wandering, and they have been false to their God.

I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

Their works will not let them come back to their God, for a false spirit is in them and they have no knowledge of the Lord.

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.

Though I put my law in writing for him in ten thousand rules, they are to him as a strange thing.

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.

My God will give them up because they did not give ear to him; they will be wandering among the nations.

And the son of Jesse was David the king; and the son of David was Solomon by her who had been the wife of Uriah;

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Now the sons of Eli were evil and good-for-nothing men, having no knowledge of the Lord.




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