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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.(A)

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13 Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge;
their nobles are dying of hunger,
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.(A)

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Desire without knowledge is not good,
    and one who moves too hurriedly misses the way.

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For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.(A)

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And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.(A) In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.(B) For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.(C) For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.(D)

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God Accuses Israel

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel,
    for the Lord has an indictment against the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or loyalty
    and no knowledge of God in the land.(A)

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30 would have none of my counsel
    and despised all my reproof,(A)
31 therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way
    and be sated with their own devices.(B)
32 For waywardness kills the simple,
    and the complacency of fools destroys them;(C)

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10 For you have forgotten God your Savior
    and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant gardens
    and set out branches of a foreign god,(A)

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‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me;(A)

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14 Israel has forgotten his Maker
    and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
    but I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour his strongholds.(A)

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And now, O priests, this command is for you. If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them[a] because you do not lay it to heart.(A) I will rebuke your offspring and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence.[b]

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  1. 2.2 Heb it
  2. 2.3 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb and he shall bear you to it

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?”
    Those who handle the law did not know me;
the rulers[a] transgressed against me;
    the prophets prophesied by Baal
    and went after things that do not profit.(A)

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  1. 2.8 Heb shepherds

12 On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.(A) 13 For I have told him that I am about to punish his house forever for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God,[a] and he did not restrain them.(B) 14 Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated by sacrifice or offering forever.”(C)

15 Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

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  1. 3.13 Gk: Heb cursing for themselves

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.(A) But you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by your instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts,(B) so I make you despised and humbled before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.(C)

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When I fed[a] them, they were satisfied;
    they were satisfied, and their heart was proud;
    therefore they forgot me.(A)

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  1. 13.6 Cn: Heb according to their pasture

Even the stork in the heavens
    knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane[a]
    observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
    the ordinance of the Lord.(A)

How can you say, “We are wise,
    and the law of the Lord is with us,”
when, in fact, the false pen of the scribes
    has made it into a lie?(B)
The wise shall be put to shame;
    they shall be dismayed and taken;
since they have rejected the word of the Lord,
    what wisdom is in them?(C)

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  1. 8.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain

For a long time Israel was without the true God and without a teaching priest and without law,(A)

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The ox knows its owner
    and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does not know;
    my people do not understand.(A)

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22 “For my people are foolish;
    they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
    they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
    but do not know how to do good.”(A)

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12 But if they do not listen, they shall perish by the sword
    and die without knowledge.(A)

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16 He will come and destroy those tenants and give the vineyard to others.” When they heard this, they said, “Heaven forbid!”(A) 17 But he looked at them and said, “What then does this text mean:

‘The stone that the builders rejected
    has become the cornerstone’?[a](B)

18 “Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”(C)

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  1. 20.17 Or keystone (in an arch)

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth?
You have struck them,
    but they felt no anguish;
you have consumed them,
    but they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
    they have refused to turn back.(A)

Then I said, “These are only the poor;
    they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
    the law of their God.(B)

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10 Israel’s[a] sentinels are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.(A)
11 The dogs have a mighty appetite;
    they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
    they have all turned to their own way,
    to their own gain, one and all.
12 “Come,” they say, “let us[b] get wine;
    let us fill ourselves with strong drink.
And tomorrow will be like today,
    great beyond measure.”

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  1. 56.10 Heb His
  2. 56.12 Q ms Syr Vg Tg: MT me

12 My people—their oppressors extort them,
    and creditors[a] rule over them.
O my people, your leaders mislead you
    and confuse the course of your paths.(A)

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  1. 3.12 Gk: Heb women

61 Though the cords of the wicked ensnare me,
    I do not forget your law.(A)

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