Hosea 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

My people are ruined for lack of knowledge! Since you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest; Since 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 was without a true God, without a priest-teacher, without instruction,

Job 36:12

But if they do not listen, they pass to the grave, they perish for lack of knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

I am consumed with rage, because my foes forget your words.

Psalm 119:153

Look at my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.

Psalm 119:61

Though the snares of the wicked surround me, your law I do not forget.

Psalm 18:27

Toward the pure, you are pure; but to the perverse you are devious.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the just nourish many, but fools die for want of sense.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good; and whoever acts hastily, blunders.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows its owner, and an ass, its master’s manger; But Israel does not know, my people has not understood.

Isaiah 17:10

Truly, you have forgotten the God who saves you, the Rock, your refuge, you have not remembered. Therefore, though you plant plants for the Pleasant One, and set out cuttings for a foreign one,

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 28:7

But these also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priest and prophet stagger from strong drink, overpowered by wine; They are confused by strong drink, they stagger in their visions, they totter when giving judgment.

Isaiah 29:12

When the scroll is handed to one who cannot read, with the request, “Read this,” the reply is, “I cannot read.”

Isaiah 3:12

My people—infants oppress them, women rule over them! My people, your leaders deceive you, they confuse the paths you should follow.

Isaiah 45:20

Come and assemble, gather together, you fugitives from among the nations! They are without knowledge who bear wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of understanding, Its nobles starving, its masses parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not ask, “Where is the Lord?” The experts in the law did not know me: the shepherds rebelled against me. The prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after useless idols.

Jeremiah 4:22

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Jeremiah 5:21

Pay attention to this, you foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear.

Ezekiel 44:23

They shall teach my people to distinguish between sacred and profane and make known to them the difference between clean and unclean.

Hosea 13:6

When I fed them, they were satisfied; when satisfied, they became proud, therefore they forgot me.

Hosea 2:13

I will put an end to all her joy, her festivals, her new moons, her sabbaths— all her seasonal feasts.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no fidelity, no loyalty, no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult their piece of wood, and their wand makes pronouncements for them, For the spirit of prostitution has led them astray; they prostitute themselves, forsaking their God.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters for their prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law for their adultery, Because the men themselves consort with prostitutes, and with temple women they offer sacrifice! Thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; For the spirit of prostitution is in them, and they do not know the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For it is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and senseless; They call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Hosea 7:9

Strangers have consumed his strength, but he does not know it; Gray hairs are strewn on his head, but he takes no notice of it.

Hosea 8:1

Put the trumpet to your lips! One like an eagle is over the house of the Lord! Because they have violated my covenant, and rebelled against my law,

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him my many instructions, they are considered like a stranger’s.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his maker and has built palaces. Judah, too, has fortified many cities, but I will send fire upon his cities, to devour their strongholds.

Hosea 9:17

My God will disown them because they have not listened to him; they will be wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

Jesse the father of David the king. David became the father of Solomon, whose mother had been the wife of Uriah.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides (of the blind). If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were wicked; they had respect neither for the Lord