Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
Hosea 4:6 - Y'all Version Bible My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest 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 time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.
But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.
For you save the oppressed people, but the arrogant 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 Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, 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 beer. The priest and the prophet reel with beer. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with beer. 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.
“Y’all assemble and come. Y’all draw near together, those who have escaped from the nations. Those 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 starving, and their masses are parched with thirst.
The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is YHWH?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed 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 skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
‘Y’all listen to this now, foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
They will 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 Baals, to which she burned incense when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers and forgot me,” says YHWH.
Children of Israel, y’all must listen to the word of YHWH, for YHWH 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 y’all’s daughters when they become prostitutes, or y’all’s 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 YHWH.
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.
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 trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over the house of YHWH, 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 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah 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 didn’t listen to him; and they will be wanderers among the nations.
Y’all are to leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind lead 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.