Hosea 4:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge! Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me; and since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 15:3

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

Job 36:12

But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal consumes me because my foes forget your words.

Psalm 119:153

Look on my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.

Psalm 119:61

Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me, I do not forget your law.

Psalm 18:27

For you deliver a humble people, but the haughty eyes you bring down.

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Isaiah 17:10

For you have forgotten God your Savior and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant gardens and set out branches of a foreign god,

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without understanding; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 28:7

These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink; they are confused with wine; they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision; they stumble in giving judgment.

Isaiah 29:12

And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”

Isaiah 3:12

My people—their oppressors extort them, and creditors rule over them. O my people, your leaders mislead you and confuse the course of your paths.

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come together; draw near, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge— those who carry about their wooden idols and keep on praying to a god that cannot save.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish; they do not know me; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, 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 the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Hosea 13:6

When I fed them, they were satisfied; they were satisfied, and their heart was proud; therefore they forgot me.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the festival days of the Baals, to whom she offered incense and decked herself with her rings and jewelry and went after her lovers and forgot me, says the Lord.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel, for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or loyalty and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:12

My people consult a piece of wood, and their divining rod gives them oracles. For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.

Hosea 4:14

I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery, for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with female attendants; thus a people without understanding comes to ruin.

Hosea 5:4

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

Hosea 6:6

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Hosea 7:11

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

Hosea 7:9

Foreigners devour his strength, but he does not know it; gray hairs are sprinkled upon him, but he does not know it.

Hosea 8:1

Set the trumpet to your lips! One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord, because they have broken my covenant and transgressed my law.

Hosea 8:12

Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions, they are regarded as a strange thing.

Hosea 8:14

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities, but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour his strongholds.

Hosea 9:17

Because they have not listened to him, my God will reject them; they shall become wanderers among the nations.

Matthew 1:6

and Jesse the father of King David. And David was the father of Solomon by the wife of Uriah,

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, 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 scoundrels; they had no regard for the Lord