Hosea 4:6

Good News Translation

My people are doomed because they do not acknowledge me. You priests have refused to acknowledge me and have rejected my teaching, and so I reject you and will not acknowledge your sons as my priests.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel lived without the true God, without priests to teach them, and without a law.

Job 36:12

But if not, they will die in ignorance and cross the stream into the world of the dead.

Psalm 119:139

My anger burns in me like a fire, because my enemies disregard your commands.

Psalm 119:153

Look at my suffering, and save me, because I have not neglected your law.

Psalm 119:61

The wicked have laid a trap for me, but I do not forget your law.

Psalm 18:27

You save those who are humble, but you humble those who are proud.

Proverbs 10:21

A good person's words will benefit many people, but you can kill yourself with stupidity.

Proverbs 19:2

Enthusiasm without knowledge is not good; impatience will get you into trouble.

Isaiah 1:3

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all.”

Isaiah 17:10

Israel, you have forgotten the God who rescues you and protects you like a mighty rock. Instead, you plant sacred gardens in order to worship a foreign god.

Isaiah 27:11

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Isaiah 28:7

Even the prophets and the priests are so drunk that they stagger. They have drunk so much wine and liquor that they stumble in confusion. The prophets are too drunk to understand the visions that God sends, and the priests are too drunk to decide the cases that are brought to them.

Isaiah 29:12

If you give it to someone who can't read and ask him to read it to you, he will answer that he doesn't know how.

Isaiah 3:12

Moneylenders oppress my people, and their creditors cheat them. My people, your leaders are misleading you, so that you do not know which way to turn.

Isaiah 45:20

The Lord says, “Come together, people of the nations, all who survive the fall of the empire; present yourselves for the trial! The people who parade with their idols of wood and pray to gods that cannot save them— those people know nothing at all!

Isaiah 5:13

and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ My own priests did not know me. The rulers rebelled against me; the prophets spoke in the name of Baal and worshiped useless idols.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

Ezekiel 44:23

“The priests are to teach my people the difference between what is holy and what is not, and between what is ritually clean and what is not.

Hosea 13:6

But when you entered the good land, you became full and satisfied, and then you grew proud and forgot me.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The Lord has spoken.

Hosea 4:1

The Lord has an accusation to bring against the people who live in this land. Listen, Israel, to what he says: “There is no faithfulness or love in the land, and the people do not acknowledge me as God.

Hosea 4:12

They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.

Hosea 4:14

Yet I will not punish them for this, because you yourselves go off with temple prostitutes, and together with them you offer pagan sacrifices. As the proverb says, ‘A people without sense will be ruined.’

Hosea 5:4

The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

I want your constant love, not your animal sacrifices. I would rather have my people know me than burn offerings to me.

Hosea 7:11

Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!

Hosea 7:9

and do not realize that this reliance on foreigners has robbed them of their strength. Their days are numbered, but they don't even know it.

Hosea 8:1

The Lord says, “Sound the alarm! Enemies are swooping down on my land like eagles! My people have broken the covenant I made with them and have rebelled against my teaching.

Hosea 8:12

I write down countless teachings for the people, but they reject them as strange and foreign.

Hosea 8:14

“The people of Israel have built palaces, but they have forgotten their own Maker. The people of Judah have built fortified cities. But I will send fire that will burn down their palaces and their cities.”

Hosea 9:17

The God I serve will reject his people, because they have not listened to him. They will become wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 15:14

“Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch.”

Matthew 15:8

‘These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

1 Samuel 2:12

The sons of Eli were scoundrels. They paid no attention to the Lord