Deuteronomy 32:28

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For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, your Creator, the One who made you and established you?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He said to mankind, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.' 15 For the heart of this people has grown dull; they can barely hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, turn back to me, and I would heal them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not become conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'

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  • Deut 32:29
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    29 If only they were wise and would understand this, they would comprehend their latter end.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people are foolish; they do not know me. They are senseless children and have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

  • Jer 10:8
    75%

    8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27 but I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say, 'Our own hand has triumphed; it was not the LORD who did all this.'

  • Isa 41:28
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    28 When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among these whom I could ask, and who could give an answer.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4 Then I thought, 'These are only the poor; they are foolish because they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.'

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    74%

    29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,

    30 They would have none of my counsel and despised all my correction.

  • Prov 21:30
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    30 There is no wisdom, no understanding, and no counsel that can stand against the LORD.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Ps 82:5
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    5 They do not know nor do they understand; they wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Rom 3:11
    73%

    11 "There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."

  • Isa 27:11
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    11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and light them on fire. For this is a people without understanding; therefore, their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not show them favor.

  • Jer 5:21
    72%

    21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • Job 32:9
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    9 It is not merely the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.

  • Job 34:27
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    27 Because they turned away from following Him and did not regard any of His ways,

  • Ps 135:17
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    17 They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Job 39:17
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    17 For God has deprived her of wisdom and has not given her understanding.

  • Job 17:4
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    4 For you have closed their hearts to understanding; therefore, you will not exalt them.

  • Prov 15:22
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    22 Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.

  • Job 12:24
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    24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • Deut 32:20-21
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    20 He said: I will hide My face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a perverse generation, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

    21 They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards, and all their skill was useless.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?

  • Mic 4:12
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    12 But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand His plan, that He has gathered them like sheaves to the threshing floor.

  • Isa 30:1-2
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    1 Woe to rebellious children, declares the LORD, who carry out plans that are not mine and make alliances without my Spirit, adding sin to sin.

    2 They set out to go down to Egypt without consulting me, seeking protection in Pharaoh's stronghold and taking refuge in the shadow of Egypt.

  • Jer 7:28
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    28 So you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God or accept discipline; truth has perished and is cut off from their lips.'

  • Ps 28:5
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    5 Because they do not consider the works of the LORD or the deeds of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.

  • Ps 53:1
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    1 For the director, according to Mahalath. A contemplative psalm of David.

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

  • Job 21:16
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    16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Deut 32:37
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    37 And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in?

  • Job 34:35
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    35 Job speaks without knowledge, and his words lack insight.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts!

  • Ps 14:1
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    1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

  • Isa 30:5
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    5 all will be ashamed of a people that cannot profit them, bringing neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.

  • Job 26:3
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    3 How have you advised without wisdom and provided abundant insight?

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    14 Therefore, I will again do extraordinary things with this people, with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.

    15 Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

  • Ps 115:7
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    7 They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3 Now they will say, 'We have no king, for we did not fear the LORD. And as for the king, what could he do for us?

  • Deut 28:50
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    50 It will be a fierce and ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and no mercy for the young.

  • Deut 32:31
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    31 For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies concede this.

  • Isa 5:13
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    13 Therefore, my people have gone into exile because of lack of knowledge; their nobles are dying of hunger, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7 And I saw among the naive ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding.

  • Ps 33:10
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    10 The Lord frustrates the counsel of the nations; He thwarts the plans of the peoples.

  • Ps 107:11
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    11 For they had rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.