⁶     my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.^(A)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law^(B) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.

¹³ Therefore my people will go into exile^(A)
    for lack of understanding;^(B)
those of high rank^(C) will die of hunger
    and the common people will be parched with thirst.^(D)

² Desire without knowledge is not good—
    how much more will hasty feet miss the way!^(A)

⁶ For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,^(A)
    and acknowledgment^(B) of God rather than burnt offerings.^(C)

³⁰ Since they would not accept my advice
    and spurned my rebuke,^(A)
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.^(B)
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;^(C)

¹⁰ You have forgotten^(A) God your Savior;^(B)
    you have not remembered the Rock,^(C) your fortress.^(D)
Therefore, though you set out the finest plants
    and plant imported vines,^(E)

⁸ “‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.