所以，我的百姓因无知就被掳去；他们的尊贵人甚是饥饿，群众极其干渴。

所以，我的百姓因无知就被掳去；尊贵的人甚是饥饿，平民也极其干渴。

所以，我的百姓因无知就被掳去；尊贵的人甚是饥饿，平民也极其干渴。

所以，我的子民必因无知而被掳。他们的贵族无饼充饥，民众无水解渴。

所以我的人民因无知被掳去；他们的尊贵人十分饥饿；他们的群众极其干渴。

因此，我的子民必因他们的无知被掳走；他们的尊贵人饥饿，他们的民众极其干渴。

所以，我的百姓因無知就被擄去；他們的尊貴人甚是飢餓，羣眾極其乾渴。

所以，我的百姓因無知就被擄去；尊貴的人甚是飢餓，平民也極其乾渴。

所以，我的百姓因無知就被擄去；尊貴的人甚是飢餓，平民也極其乾渴。

所以，我的子民必因無知而被擄。他們的貴族無餅充饑，民眾無水解渴。

所以我的人民因無知被擄去；他們的尊貴人十分飢餓；他們的群眾極其乾渴。

故此我的人民因無知而流亡；他們的尊貴人餓得要死；他們的大眾乾渴得要命。

因此，我的子民必因他們的無知被擄走；他們的尊貴人飢餓，他們的民眾極其乾渴。

是以我民因無知而被虜、尊者飢困、庶民燥渴、

我民無知、為人所擄、尊者飢、黎民渴。

故我民因無知、遂被遷移外邦、其尊者饑而死、民眾渴而憊、

Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.

So my people will be taken away as prisoners. That’s because they don’t understand what the Lord has done. Their nobles will die of hunger. The rest of the people won’t have any water to drink.

Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.

Therefore my people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.

Therefore My people go into exile for their lack of knowledge; And their nobles are famished, And their multitude is parched with thirst.

Therefore my people have gone into captivity, Because they have no knowledge; Their honorable men are famished, And their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

Therefore My people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because[ they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men[ are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.“ Because you have rejected knowledge, I also reject you as my priests; because you have ignored the law of your God, I also will ignore your children. (niv)

The ox knows its master, the donkey its owner’s manger, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” (niv)

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor. (niv)

“ Woe to you, blind guides! You say,‘ If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?You also say,‘ If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred?Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it.And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices— mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law— justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. (niv)

The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns but find no water. They return with their jars unfilled; dismayed and despairing, they cover their heads. (niv)

Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. (niv)

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the Habor River and in the towns of the Medes. (niv)

Therefore the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus. He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him.In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah— because Judah had forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors.Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king.The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria. (niv)

But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say,“ Send them back.”Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart. (niv)

If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’” (niv)

This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. (niv)

But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. (niv)

Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers. (niv)

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord. (niv)

They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.” (niv)

Those killed by the sword are better off than those who die of famine; racked with hunger, they waste away for lack of food from the field. (niv)

Because of thirst the infant’s tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for bread, but no one gives it to them.Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps. (niv)

“ In that day“ the lovely young women and strong young men will faint because of thirst. (niv)