For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are foolish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy Elohim, I will also forget thy children.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN THEOS. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Because that, when they knew Elohim, they esteemed him not as Yahweh, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of Elohim, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of the Messiah;