My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge – “My people are,” not, “is.” This accurately represents the Hebrew. The word “people…

For lack of knowledge, which you, O priest, should have kept alive in their hearts. The knowledge of God is life eternal …

Here the Prophet distinctly touches on the idleness of the priests, whom the Lord, as is well known, had set over the people. For though it could n…

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
This is not to be understood of those who are the Lord's people by spe…

Both priests and people rejected knowledge, so God will justly reject them. They forgot the law of God. They neither desired nor endeavored to reta…