Hosea 4:6

Modern English Version

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without law,

Job 36:12

But if they do not obey, they will perish by the sword, and they will die without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten Your words.

Psalm 119:153

Consider my affliction and deliver me, for I do not forget Your law.

Psalm 119:61

The bands of the wicked have bound me, but I have not forgotten Your law.

Psalm 18:27

For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty eyes.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

Proverbs 19:2

It is not good for the soul to be without knowledge, and he misses the way who is hasty with his feet.

Isaiah 1:3

the ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; My people do not consider.

Isaiah 17:10

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore you plant pleasant plants and set them with vine slips of a strange god;

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they are broken off; the women come and make a fire with them, for they are not a people of understanding; therefore, their maker will not have mercy on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine and stagger from strong drink; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink; they err while having visions, they stumble when rendering judgment.

Isaiah 29:12

Then the book shall be delivered to him who is not learned, saying, “Read this, please.” And he shall say, “I cannot read.”

Isaiah 3:12

As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you fugitives of the nations. They have no knowledge who set up the wood of their carved image, and pray to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people go into captivity because they have no knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 44:23

They shall teach My people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

When they had pasture, they were satisfied. They were satisfied, and their heart was exalted; therefore they forgot Me.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the days of the Baals, when she burned incense to them and adorned herself with her earrings and her jewelry, and pursued her lovers, but forgot Me, declares the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth or mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people seek counsel from their wood, and their staff informs them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have played the whore in defiance of their God.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men separate themselves with whores, and they sacrifice with cult prostitutes. A people without understanding will come to ruin.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it. Gray hairs are here and there upon him, but he does not know it.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your mouth! One like an eagle is on the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed My covenant and rebelled against My law.

Hosea 8:12

I have written for him the great things of My law, but they were regarded as a strange thing.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his maker and built temples, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it will devour his palaces.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them because they did not listen to Him, and they will be wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

Jesse was the father of David the king. David the king was the father of Solomon, by her who had been the wife of Uriah.

Matthew 15:14

Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch.”

Matthew 15:8

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were corrupt. They did not know the Lord.