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

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13 Therefore my people go into exile
    (A)for lack of knowledge;[a]
their (B)honored men go hungry,[b]
    and their multitude is parched with thirst.

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  1. Isaiah 5:13 Or without their knowledge
  2. Isaiah 5:13 Or die of hunger

Desire[a] without knowledge is not good,
    and whoever (A)makes haste with his feet misses his way.

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  1. Proverbs 19:2 Or A soul

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

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  1. Hosea 6:6 Septuagint mercy

And even (A)if our gospel is veiled, (B)it is veiled to (C)those who are perishing. In their case (D)the god of this world (E)has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing (F)the light of (G)the gospel of the glory of Christ, (H)who is the image of God. For what (I)we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with (J)ourselves as your servants[a] for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, (K)“Let light shine out of darkness,” (L)has shone in our hearts to give (M)the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 4:5 Or slaves (for the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface)

The Lord Accuses Israel

(A)Hear the word of the Lord, O children of Israel,
    for (B)the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land.
There is no faithfulness or steadfast love,
    and (C)no knowledge of God in the land;

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30 (A)would have none of my counsel
    and (B)despised all my reproof,
31 therefore they shall eat (C)the fruit of their way,
    and have (D)their fill of their own devices.
32 For the simple are killed by (E)their turning away,
    and (F)the complacency of fools destroys them;

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(A)“‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their heart is far from me;

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The Lord Rebukes the Priests

“And now, (A)O priests, (B)this command is for you. (C)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send (D)the curse upon you and I will curse (E)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart. Behold, (F)I will rebuke your offspring,[a] and (G)spread dung on your faces, the (H)dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.[b]

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  1. Malachi 2:3 Hebrew seed
  2. Malachi 2:3 Or to it

14 For (A)Israel has forgotten (B)his Maker
    and (C)built palaces,
and (D)Judah has multiplied fortified cities;
    so (E)I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.

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10 For (A)you have forgotten the God of your salvation
    and have not remembered the (B)Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
    and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

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

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  1. Jeremiah 2:8 Or rulers

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

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