Hosea 4:6-7
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My people are destroyed v for lack of knowledge;
w because you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you x from being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
y I also will forget your children.
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z The more they increased,
the more they sinned against me;
a I will change their glory into shame.
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Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel, for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Isaiah 5:13
Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.
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Proverbs 1:29
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
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Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.
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Jeremiah 23:39
Therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and cast you away from my presence, you and the city that I gave to you and your fathers.
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Hosea 13:6
But when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me.
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1 Samuel 2:30
Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,' but now the Lord declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Malachi 2:9
And so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction.
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