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Isaiah 5:13

Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.

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ASV

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

KJV

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.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לָכֵ֛ןla.Khen<to> thereforeH3651 →
גָּלָ֥הga.Lahit will go into exileH1540 →
עַמִּ֖י'a.Mipeople myH5971 →
מִבְּלִי־mi.be.li-because notH1097 →
דָ֑עַתDa.'atknowledgeH1847 →
וּכְבוֹדוֹ֙u.khe.vo.Doand honor itsH3519 →
מְתֵ֣יme.Tei[will be] men ofH4962 →
רָעָ֔בra.'AvhungerH7458 →
וַהֲמוֹנ֖וֹva.ha.mo.Noand multitude itsH1995 →
צִחֵ֥הtzi.Cheh[will be] parched ofH6704 →
צָמָֽא׃tza.Ma'thirstH6772 →

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Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.Isaiah 1:3The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”Jeremiah 2:13“For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.Isaiah 1:7Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.Exodus 23:23For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them.Isaiah 44:19And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.John 3:19–20And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.Isaiah 3:1For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,Lamentations 4:9Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”Lamentations 4:4–5The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Isaiah 42:22–25But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”Matthew 23:16–27Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’Jeremiah 14:3The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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