Now for a long season Yisra'el was without the true God, and without a teaching Kohen, and without law:
Hosea 4:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no Kohen to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 God, I will also forget thy children. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you that you shall be no priest to Me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. American Standard Version (1901) 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 God, I also will forget thy children. Common English Bible My people are destroyed from lack of knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, so I will reject you from serving me as a priest. Since you have forgotten the Instruction of your God, so also I will forget your children. Catholic Public Domain Version My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children. |
Now for a long season Yisra'el was without the true God, and without a teaching Kohen, and without law:
But if they don't listen, they shall perish by the sword; they shall die without knowledge.
For you will save the afflicted people, but the haughty eyes you will bring down.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Yisra'el doesn't know, my people don't consider.
For you have forgotten the God of your yeshu`ah, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The Kohen and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
and the book is delivered to one who is not educated, saying, *Read this, please;* and he says, *I can't read.*
As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
The Kohanim didn't say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law didn't know me: the rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Ba`al, and walked after things that do not profit.
For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
I will visit on her the days of the Ba`alim, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,* says the LORD.
Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Yisra'el; for the LORD has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: *Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will come to ruin.
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don't know the LORD.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
*Efrayim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Ashur.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he doesn't realize it. Indeed, gray hairs are here and there on him, and he doesn't realize it.
*Put the shofar to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the LORD's house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.
I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.
For Yisra'el has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Yehudah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.*
My God will cast them away, because they did not listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Yishai became the father of David the king. David became the father of Shlomo by her who had been the wife of Uriyah.
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.*
'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.