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(A)My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have (B)rejected knowledge,
I also will (C)reject you from ministering as My priest.
Since you have (D)forgotten the (E)law of your God,
I Myself also will forget your children.

The more they (F)multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will (G)change their glory into disgrace.
They (H)eat the [a]sin of My people
And (I)lift up [b]their soul toward their iniquity.

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  1. Hosea 4:8 Or sin offering
  2. Hosea 4:8 Lit his

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.

As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame.

They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.

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    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.
The more priests there were,
    the more they sinned against me;
    they exchanged their glorious God[a](C) for something disgraceful.(D)
They feed on the sins of my people
    and relish their wickedness.(E)

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  1. Hosea 4:7 Syriac (see also an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition); Masoretic Text me; / I will exchange their glory