King James Version (KJV)
Hosea 4:6
“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.”
Verse in context — Hosea 4
4
Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people [are] as they that strive with the priest.
5
Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother.
6
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.
7
As they were increased, so they sinned against me: [therefore] will I change their glory into shame.
8
They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
About Hosea
God’s steadfast love for His unfaithful people, symbolized through Hosea’s marriage.
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