11 translations · Hebrew
Hosea 4:6
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.
Hosea 4:6 in 11 translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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.
- ASV 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- My people have been cut off for lack of knowledge, || Because you have rejected knowledge, || I reject you from being priest to Me, || And you forget the Law of your God—I forget your sons, I also!
- FBV Free Bible Version
- My people are dying because they don't know me. Because you have refused to know me, I refuse to accept you as my priests. You have forgotten my teachings, so I will forget your children.
- YLT Young’s 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!
- DBY 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- 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.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- 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.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- My people have been silent, because they had no knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee, that thou shalt not do the office of priesthood to me: and thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| נִדְמ֥וּ | niḏ·mū | are destroyed | H1820 דָּמָה to cease |
| עַמִּ֖י | ‘am·mî | My people | H5971 עַם people |
| מִבְּלִ֣י | mib·bə·lî | for lack | H1097 בְּלִי without |
| הַדָּ֑עַת | had·dā·‘aṯ | of knowledge | H1847 דַּ֫עַת knowledge |
| כִּֽי־ | kî- | Because | H3588 כִּי for |
| אַתָּ֞ה | ’at·tāh | you | H859 אַתָּ֫ה you(m.s.) |
| הַדַּ֣עַת | had·da·‘aṯ | knowledge | H1847 דַּ֫עַת knowledge |
| מָאַ֗סְתָּ | mā·’as·tā | have rejected | H3988 מָאַס to reject |
| וְאֶמְאָֽסְאךָ֙ | wə·’em·’ā·sə·ḵā | I will also reject you | H3988 מָאַס to reject |
| מִכַּהֵ֣ן | mik·ka·hên | as My priests | H3547 כָּהַן to minister |
| לִ֔י | lî | — | H9005 ל to/for |
| וַתִּשְׁכַּח֙ | wat·tiš·kaḥ | Since you have forgotten | H7911 שָׁכַח to forget |
| תּוֹרַ֣ת | tō·w·raṯ | the law | H8451 תּוֹרָה instruction |
| אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ | ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā | of your God | H430 אֱלֹהִים God |
| אֶשְׁכַּ֥ח | ’eš·kaḥ | forget | H7911 שָׁכַח to forget |
| בָּנֶ֖יךָ | bā·ne·ḵā | your children | H1121 בֵּן son: child |
| גַּם־ | gam- | will also | H1571 גַּם also |
| אָֽנִי׃ | ’ā·nî | I | H589 אֲנִי I |
Related verses
- Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
- Proverbs 19:2
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
- Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- 2 Corinthians 4:3–6
Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who are dying; in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake; …
- Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
- Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
- Proverbs 1:30–32
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof. Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes. For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
- Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
- Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
- Malachi 2:7–9
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies. But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
4 “Yet let no man bring a charge, neither let any man accuse; For your people are like those who bring charges against a priest.
5 You will stumble in the day, and the prophet will also stumble with you in the night; and I will destroy your mother.
6 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.
7 As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
8 They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.
Read all of Hosea 4 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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