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Hosea 4:6

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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.

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Hosea 4:6 in other translations

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.

Hosea 4:6 · American Standard Version

Hosea 4:6 in context

  1. 4“Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; for your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
  2. 5You will stumble in the day,
    and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night;
    and I will destroy your mother.
  3. 6My 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.
  4. 7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me.
    I will change their glory into shame.
  5. 8They feed on the sin of my people,
    and set their heart on their iniquity.