Hosea 4:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

My people

For

I will also reject

Luke 20:16

Seeing

General references

Deuteronomy 32:28

Jeremiah 5:4

Ezekiel 44:23

Bible References

My people

My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

My people -- its exactors are sucklings, And women have ruled over it. My people -- thy eulogists are causing to err, And the way of thy paths swallowed up.

Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.

For

Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

and many days are to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law,

And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

Also, without knowledge the soul is not good, And the hasty in feet is sinning.

In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

Be gathered, and come in, Come nigh together, ye escaped of the nations, They have not known, Who are lifting up the wood of their graven image, And praying unto a god that saveth not.

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

and if also our good news is vailed, in those perishing it is vailed,

I will also reject

And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath abhorred me.

And now, to you is this charge, O priests,

They say to him, 'Evil men -- he will evilly destroy them, and the vineyard will give out to other husbandmen, who will give back to him the fruits in their seasons.'

and having taken him, they did kill, and cast him forth without the vineyard.

He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, 'Let it not be!'

Seeing

And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

According to their feedings they are satiated, They have been satiated, And their heart is lifted up, Therefore they have forgotten Me,

And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,

Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

And he answering said to them, 'Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to Me for a priest, to go up on Mine altar, to make a perfume, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of thy father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?

In that day I establish unto Eli all that I have spoken unto his house, beginning and completing;

General references

For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them.

And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.