Hosea 4:6

New English Translation

You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

For a long time Israel had no true God, or priest to instruct them, or law.

Job 36:12

But if they refuse to listen, they pass over the river of death, and expire without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.

Psalm 119:153

See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.

Psalm 119:61

The ropes of the wicked tighten around me, but I do not forget your law.

Psalm 18:27

For you deliver oppressed people, but you bring down those who have a proud look.

Proverbs 10:21

The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.

Proverbs 19:2

It is dangerous to have zeal without knowledge, and the one who acts hastily makes poor choices.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

Isaiah 17:10

For you ignore the God who rescues you; you pay no attention to your strong protector. So this is what happens: You cultivate beautiful plants and plant exotic vines.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Isaiah 28:7

Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer – priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.

Isaiah 29:12

Or when they hand the scroll to one who can’t read and say, “Read this,” he says, “I can’t read.”

Isaiah 3:12

Oppressors treat my people cruelly; creditors rule over them. My people’s leaders mislead them; they give you confusing directions.

Isaiah 45:20

Gather together and come! Approach together, you refugees from the nations! Those who carry wooden idols know nothing, those who pray to a god that cannot deliver.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

Jeremiah 2:8

Your priests did not ask, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those responsible for teaching my law did not really know me. Your rulers rebelled against me. Your prophets prophesied in the name of the god Baal. They all worshiped idols that could not help them.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Tell them: ‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

Ezekiel 44:23

Moreover, they will teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the ceremonially unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

When they were fed, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; as a result, they forgot me!

Hosea 2:13

“I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!” says the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, you Israelites! For the Lord has a covenant lawsuit against the people of Israel. For there is neither faithfulness nor loyalty in the land, nor do they acknowledge God.

Hosea 4:12

They consult their wooden idols, and their diviner’s staff answers with an oracle. The wind of prostitution blows them astray; they commit spiritual adultery against their God.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they commit prostitution, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men consort with harlots, they sacrifice with temple prostitutes. It is true: “A people that lacks understanding will come to ruin!”

Hosea 5:4

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim has been like a dove, easily deceived and lacking discernment. They called to Egypt for help; they turned to Assyria for protection.

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

Hosea 8:1

Sound the alarm! An eagle looms over the temple of the Lord! For they have broken their covenant with me, and have rebelled against my law.

Hosea 8:12

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown to them!

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built royal palaces, and Judah has built many fortified cities. But I will send fire on their cities; it will consume their royal citadels.

Hosea 9:17

My God will reject them, for they have not obeyed him; so they will be fugitives among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse the father of David the king. David was the father of Solomon (by the wife of Uriah),

Matthew 15:14

Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 15:8

‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,

1 Samuel 2:12

The sons of Eli were wicked men. They did not recognize the Lord’s authority.