Jeremiah 5:4

American Standard Version (1901)

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

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  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed 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 the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. 11 Nay, but by [men of] strange lips and with another tongue will he speak to this people; 12 to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
  • John 7:48-49 : 48 Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? 49 But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

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    5I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they know the way of Jehovah, and the law of their God. But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

  • Jer 4:22
    81%

    22For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jer 5:20-21
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    76%

    20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:

  • Jer 5:3
    76%

    3O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Hos 5:4
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    4Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.

  • Prov 28:5
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    5Evil men understand not justice; But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.

  • Deut 32:28-29
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    28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

    29Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

  • Ps 14:4
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    4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?

  • Ps 94:7-8
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    7And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.

    8Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

  • Mic 4:12
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    12But they know not the thoughts of Jehovah, neither understand they his counsel; for he hath gathered them as the sheaves to the threshing-floor.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • Rom 3:17
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    17And the way of peace have they not known:

  • Ps 107:17
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    17Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely.

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  • Isa 59:8
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    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

  • Prov 29:7
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    7The righteous taketh knowledge of the cause of the poor; The wicked hath not understanding to know [it] .

  • Ps 53:4
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    4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.

    12For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins--ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right] .

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    3The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.

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  • Hos 14:9
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    9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.

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    6A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

  • Isa 5:21
    72%

    21Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge.

  • Jer 5:28
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    1[For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David]. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.

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    4They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

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    1[For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David]. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.

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    5Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

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    13Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.

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    4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

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    15The labor of fools wearieth every one of them; for he knoweth not how to go to the city.

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    8[ They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.