Hosea 4:6 · KJV
“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. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}”
— Hosea 4:6
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. {destroy: Heb. cut off}
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: {therefore} will I change their glory into shame.
Hosea 4 — Context
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people {are} as they that strive with the priest.
5Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. {destroy: Heb. cut off}
6My 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. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}
7As they were increased, so they sinned against me: {therefore} will I change their glory into shame.
8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity. {set...: Heb. lift up their soul to}
Cross References
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because {they have} no knowledge: and their honourable men {are} famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. {honourable...: Heb. glory are men of famine}
Proverbs 19:2
Also, {that} the soul {be} without knowledge, {it is} not good; and he that hasteth with {his} feet sinneth.
Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because {there is} no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Matthew 15:8
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with {their} lips; but their heart is far from me.
Proverbs 1:30-32
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips: