My people.

Hosea 4:12
My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God.

Isaiah 1:3
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand."

Isaiah 3:12
Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

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.

Jeremiah 4:22
"For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good."

Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush observe their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

destroyed.

Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land!

Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

2 Chronicles 15:3
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without law.

Job 36:12
But if they do not obey, they will perish by the sword and die without knowledge.

Proverbs 19:2
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.

Isaiah 27:11
When its limbs are dry, they will be broken off. Women will come and use them for kindling, for they are a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker will have no compassion on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Isaiah 45:20
Come, gather together, and draw near, you fugitives of the nations. Ignorant are those who carry idols of wood and pray to a god that cannot save.

Jeremiah 5:3, 4, 21
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent. . . .

Matthew 15:14
Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit."

2 Corinthians 4:3-6
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. . . .

because.

1 Samuel 2:12
Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD

Proverbs 1:30-32
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. . . .

Isaiah 28:7
These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Isaiah 56:10-12
Israel's watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber. . . .

Jeremiah 2:8
The priests did not ask, 'Where is the LORD?' The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

Jeremiah 8:8, 9
How can you say, 'We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?' But in fact, the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception. . . .

Malachi 2:7, 8
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts." . . .

Matthew 23:16-26
Woe 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.' . . .

I will also reject.

Zechariah 11:8, 9, 15-17
And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me. . . .

Malachi 2:1-3, 9
And now this decree is for you, O priests: . . .

Matthew 21:41-45
"He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, " they declared, "and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his fruits in their seasons." . . .

Mark 12:8, 9
So they seized the son, killed him, and threw him out of the vineyard. . . .

Luke 20:16-18
He will come and kill those tenants, and will give the vineyard to others." And when the people heard this, they said, "May such a thing never happen!" . . .

seeing.

Hosea 8:14
Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Hosea 13:6
When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud. As a result, they forgot Me.

2 Kings 17:16-20
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal. . . .

Psalm 119:61, 139
Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law. . . .

Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and failed to remember the rock of your strength. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines--

Matthew 15:3-6
Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? . . .

Matthew 1:6
and Jesse the father of David the king. Next: David was the father of Solomon by Uriah's wife,

1 Samuel 2:28-36
And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire. . . .

1 Samuel 3:12-15
On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end. . . .