ו נִדְמוּ עַמִּי, מִבְּלִי הַדָּעַת:
כִּי-אַתָּה הַדַּעַת מָאַסְתָּ, ואמאסאך (וְאֶמְאָסְךָ) מִכַּהֵן לִי,
וַתִּשְׁכַּח תּוֹרַת אֱלֹהֶיךָ, אֶשְׁכַּח בָּנֶיךָ גַּם-אָנִי.
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6 My people are destroyed(Heb
-damah) for lack of knowledge; because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will
also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me; seeing thou hast
forgotten(ignored) the law (Torah) of Elohim, I also will forget(cease to
care for) thy children.
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BDB
Definition: dâmâh
1)
to cease, cause to cease, cut off, destroy, perish
1a)
(Qal)
1a1)
to cease
1a2) to cause to cease, destroy
1a2) to cause to cease, destroy
1b)
(Niphal)
1b1)
to be cut off
1b2) to be undone, be
cut off at sight of the theophany
Same Hebrew word used in Yesh 6:5 – Woe is me I am
“nidmati” – undone….
Isa 6:5 And I said, “Woe to me, for I am undone!
Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of
unclean lips – for my eyes have seen the Sovereign, יהוה of hosts.”
Isa 6:6 And one of
the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with
the tongs from the altar.
Isa 6:7 And he
touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your
crookedness is taken away, and your sin is covered.”
Isa 6:8 And I heard the voice of יהוה, saying, “Whom
do I send, and who would go for Us?” And I said, “Here am I! Send me.”
Isa 6:9 And He
said, “Go, and you shall say to this people, ‘Hearing, you hear, but do not
understand; and seeing, you see, but do not know.’
Isa 6:10 “Make the
heart of this people fat, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they
see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart,
and shall turn and be healed.”
Isa 6:11 Then I
said, “יהוה, until when?” And He answered, “Until the
cities are laid waste and without inhabitant, and the houses are without a man,
and the land is laid waste, a ruin,
Isa 6:12 and יהוה has removed men far away, and the forsaken
places be many in the midst of the land.
Isa 6:13 “But
still, there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be for a burning, like a
terebinth tree and like an oak, whose stump remains when it is cut down. The
set-apart seed is its stump!”
The price tag of ignorance is way, way too high to
even consider let alone have to pay.
Gen 15:1 After these
events the word of יהוה came to Aḇram in a vision, saying, “Do
not be afraid, Aḇram. I am your shield, your
reward is exceedingly great.”
Gen 15:2 And Aḇram
said, “Master יהוה, what would
You give me, seeing I go childless, and the heir of my house is Eliʽezer
of Damascus?”
Gen 15:3 And Aḇram
said, “See, You have given me no seed, and see, one born in my house is my
heir!”
Gen 15:4 And see,
the word of יהוה came to him,
saying, “This one is not your heir, but he who comes from your own body is your
heir.”
Gen 15:5 And He
brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens, and count the stars
if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So are your seed.”
Gen 15:6 And he
believed in יהוה, and He
reckoned it to him for righteousness.
This is the cornerstone of Pauls teaching.
Rom 4:4 And to him who is working, the reward is not
reckoned as a favour but as a debt.
Rom 4:5 And to him who is not working but believes on
Him who is declaring right the wicked, his belief is reckoned for righteousness,