Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Because you have
I also will
Since you have
I also will forget your children.
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.
International Standard Version
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.
A Conservative Version
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou have rejected knowledge, I also will reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me. Since thou have forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy sons.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of My law, where I reveal My will].
Because you [the priestly nation] have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you from being My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your children.
Bible in Basic English
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.
Darby Translation
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; for thou hast rejected knowledge, and I will 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.
Julia Smith Translation
My people were cut off from not knowing: because thou didst reject knowledge and I will reject thee from being priest to me: and thou wilt forget the instructions of thy God; I will also forget thy sons, also I
King James 2000
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
Modern King James verseion
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being priest to Me. Since you have forgotten the Law of your God, I will also forget your sons, even I.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My people perish, because they have no knowledge. Seeing then that thou hast refused understanding, therefore will I refuse thee also: so that thou shalt no more be my priest. And forsomuch as thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
NET Bible
You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
New Heart English Bible
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.
The Emphasized Bible
My people, are destroyed, for lack of knowledge, - Because, thou, hast rejected knowledge, therefore will I reject thee from ministering as priest unto me, and, because thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also, will forget thy children.
Webster
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.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
Themes
Destruction » Why people are destroyed
Forgetting » The reward for forgetting the lord
Glory » Whose glory becomes shame
Knowledge » The reward for lacking knowledge
Knowledge » Those who reject are destroyed
Law » The reward for ignoring the law
The law of God » The wicked » Forget
Punishment of the The Wicked » On account of their » Rejection of the law of God
Rejection » The reward for rejecting knowledge
Rejection » Who the lord rejects
Topics
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Devotionals containing Hosea 4:6
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Hosea 4:6
Prayers for Hosea 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Accuses The Priests
5
And the prophet also will stumble with you by night;
And I will destroy your
Because you have
I also will
Since you have
I also will forget your children.
I will
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 5:13
And
And their multitude is parched with thirst.
Hosea 8:14
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a
2 Chronicles 15:3
Psalm 119:61
But I have
Proverbs 19:2
And he who hurries
Isaiah 1:3
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel
My people
Isaiah 17:10
And have not remembered the
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
Hosea 4:1
For the Lord has a
Because there is
Or
Hosea 13:6
And being satisfied, their
Therefore they
Zechariah 11:8-9
Then I annihilated the three shepherds in
Zechariah 11:15-17
The Lord said to me, “Take again for yourself the equipment of a
1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were
1 Samuel 2:28-36
1 Samuel 3:12-15
In that day
2 Kings 17:16-20
They forsook all the commandments of the Lord their God and made for themselves molten images, even
Psalm 119:139
Because my adversaries have forgotten Your words.
Proverbs 1:30-32
They spurned all my reproof.
Isaiah 3:12
And women rule over them.
O My people!
And confuse the direction of your paths.
Isaiah 27:11
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of
Therefore
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.
Isaiah 28:7
They are confused by wine, they stagger from
They reel while
They totter when rendering judgment.
Isaiah 45:20
Draw near together, you fugitives of the nations;
Who
And
Isaiah 56:10-12
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Jeremiah 2:8
And those who handle the law
The
And the
And walked after
Jeremiah 4:22
They know Me not;
They are stupid children
And have no understanding.
They are shrewd to
But to do good they do not know.”
Jeremiah 5:3-4
You have
But they did not
You have consumed them,
But they
They have
They have refused to repent.
Jeremiah 5:21
Who have
Who have ears but do not hear.
Jeremiah 8:7-9
And the
Observe the time of their
But
The ordinance of the Lord.
Hosea 2:13
When she used to
And
And follow her lovers, so that she
Hosea 4:12
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing
Hosea 6:6
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 8:1
Because they have
And rebelled against My
Hosea 8:12
They are regarded as a strange thing.
Malachi 2:1-3
“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.
Malachi 2:7-9
For the lips of a priest should preserve
Matthew 1:6
Jesse was the father of David the king.David
Matthew 15:3-6
And He answered and said to them,
Matthew 15:8
Matthew 15:14
Matthew 21:41-45
They *said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and
Matthew 23:16-26
Mark 12:8-9
Luke 20:16-18
2 Corinthians 4:3-6
And even if our
Job 36:12
And they will