Thematic Bible: The reward for lacking knowledge
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Therefore my people go into exile because they lack understanding; my honored men go hungry, and the crowd is parched with thirst.
"Hear this message from the LORD, people of Israel. Indeed, the LORD brings a charge against the people who live in the land for there is no truth and no gracious love or knowledge of God in the land. Swearing, lying, murder, theft, and adultery are rampant, and blood mingles with blood. Therefore the land will mourn, and all who live there will languish, along with the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Even the fish in the sea will disappear. read more.
"Let no one fight or bring charges against another, for my dispute is with you, priest. So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.
"Let no one fight or bring charges against another, for my dispute is with you, priest. So you will stumble during the day, the prophet also will stumble with you at night, and I will destroy your mother. My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge of me. Because you rejected that knowledge, I will reject you as a priest for me. Since you forget the Law of your God, I will also forget your children.