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

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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.

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11 [a]Infidelity, (A)wine, and new wine take away the [b]understanding.

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  1. Hosea 4:11 Or Prostitution
  2. Hosea 4:11 Lit heart

     11 to prostitution;(A)
old wine(B) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(C)

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14 I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute,
Or your [a]brides when they commit adultery,
Because the men themselves slip away with the prostitutes
And offer sacrifices with (A)temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.

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  1. Hosea 4:14 Or daughters-in-law

14 “I will not punish your daughters
    when they turn to prostitution,
nor your daughters-in-law
    when they commit adultery,
because the men themselves consort with harlots(A)
    and sacrifice with shrine prostitutes(B)
    a people without understanding(C) will come to ruin!(D)

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Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a (A)spirit of [a]infidelity is within them,
And they (B)do not know the Lord.

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  1. Hosea 5:4 Or prostitution

“Their deeds do not permit them
    to return(A) to their God.
A spirit of prostitution(B) is in their heart;
    they do not acknowledge(C) the Lord.

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