Hosea 4:6

Translations

Modern

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Traditional

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.

Literal

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, because you have rejected knowledge, and I will reject you from being priest unto Me; and you have forgotten the law of your God; I will forget your children also.

Latin

Conticuit populus meus, eo quod non habuerit scientiam: quia tu scientiam repulisti, repellam te, ne sacerdotio fungaris mihi; et oblita es legis Dei tui, obliviscar filiorum tuorum et ego.

Original

Hebrew

English

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Notes

Hosea 4:6

Since the priests refused to know the Lord, the people also did not know their God. As a result, the people were being destroyed.
A main role of the priests of Israel was to know, practice, and teach the laws of God. Ironically, these guardians of the law had forgotten it.

Theme notes and profiles

Knowing God The Broken Covenant The Limitations of Law The Stone the Builders Rejected

Events

Prophecies of Hoseac. 785 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 5:13
Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
Proverbs 19:2
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
2 Corinthians 4:3–6
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!
Matthew 15:8
‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Proverbs 1:30–32
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
Malachi 2:7–9
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
Hosea 8:14
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.
Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
Malachi 2:1–3
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:

Glossary

Hosea, Book of New Covenant

Topics

Backsliders: Backsliding of Israel Being Ignored Blindness: Spiritual Christian Minister: False and Corrupt Dressing Up for Church Forgetting God is Forgetting His: Law Forgetting God: Law Healing the Nation Ignorance: Sins of Ignoring God Knowledge: Rejected Knowledge: Those Who Reject are Destroyed Lack of Knowledge Perishing Praying for the Sick Seeking Knowledge Sin: The Israelites The Law of God: The Wicked: Forget The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Rejection of the Law of God Trickery Understanding the Word

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