Jeremiah 5:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.

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  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Euen the storke in the aire knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallowe obserue the time of their comming, but my people knoweth not the iudgement of the Lorde.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughes of it are drie, they shalbe broken: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of none vnderstading: therefore hee that made them, shall not haue compassion of them, and he that formed them, shall haue no mercie on them.
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whome shall he teache knowledge? and whome shall he make to vnderstand the thinges that hee heareth? them that are weyned from the milke, and drawen from the breastes. 10 For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle, and there a litle. 11 For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speake vnto this people. 12 Vnto whome hee saide, This is the rest: giue rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing, but they would not heare. 13 Therefore shall the worde of the Lord be vnto them precept vpon precept, precept vpo precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle and there a litle, that they may goe, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Beholde, you trust in lying woordes, that can not profite.
  • John 7:48-49 : 48 Doeth any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeue in him? 49 But this people, which know not the Law, are cursed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 5:5
    82%

    5I will get me vnto the great men, and will speake vnto them: for they haue knowen the way of the Lord, and the iudgement of their God: but these haue altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bondes.

  • Jer 4:22
    81%

    22For my people is foolish, they haue not knowen me: they are foolish children, and haue none vnderstanding: they are wise to doe euill, but to doe well they haue no knowledge.

  • Jer 5:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20Declare this in the house of Iaakob, and publish it in Iudah, saying,

    21Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.

  • Jer 5:3
    76%

    3O Lord, are not thine eyes vpo the trueth? Thou hast striken them, but they haue not sorowed: thou hast consumed them, but they haue refused to receiue correction: they haue made their faces harder then a stone, and haue refused to returne.

  • Ps 82:5
    76%

    5They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.

  • Isa 44:18
    75%

    18They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.

  • Hos 5:4
    75%

    4They will not giue their mindes to turne vnto their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the middes of them, and they haue not knowen the Lord.

  • Prov 28:5
    75%

    5Wicked men vnderstand not iudgemnt: but they that seeke the Lord vnderstand all things.

  • Deut 32:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28For they are a nation voide of counsel, neither is there any vnderstanding in them.

    29Oh that they were wise, then they would vnderstand this: they would consider their latter ende.

  • Ps 14:4
    74%

    4Doe not all the workers of iniquitie know that they eate vp my people, as they eate bread? They call not vpon the Lord.

  • Ps 94:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7Yet they say, The Lord shall not see: neither will the God of Iaakob regard it.

    8Vnderstande ye vnwise among the people: and ye fooles, when will ye be wise?

  • Mic 4:12
    74%

    12But they knowe not the thoughtes of the Lord: they vnderstand not his counsell, for he shall gather them as the sheaues in the barne.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

  • Rom 3:17
    74%

    17And ye way of peace they haue not knowen.

  • Ps 107:17
    74%

    17Fooles by reason of their transgression, and because of their iniquities are afflicted.

  • Jer 8:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8Howe doe yee say, Wee are wise, and the Lawe of the Lorde is with vs? Loe, certeinly in vaine made hee it, the penne of the scribes is in vaine.

    9The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?

  • Isa 59:8
    73%

    8The way of peace they knowe not, & there is none equitie in their goings: they haue made them crooked paths: whosoeuer goeth therein, shall not knowe peace.

  • Prov 29:7
    73%

    7The righteous knoweth the cause of the poore: but the wicked regardeth not knowledge.

  • Ps 53:4
    73%

    4Doe not the workers of iniquitie knowe that they eate vp my people as they eate bread? they call not vpon God.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

    12For I know your manifold transgressions, and your mightie sinnes: they afflict the iust, they take rewards, & they oppresse the poore in ye gate.

  • Prov 19:3
    73%

    3The foolishnesse of a man peruerteth his way, and his heart freateth against the Lord.

  • Jer 9:13
    73%

    13And the Lorde sayeth, Because they haue forsaken my Lawe, which I set before them, and haue not obeyed my voice, neither walked thereafter,

  • Hos 14:9
    73%

    9(14:10) Who is wise, and he shall vnderstande these things? and prudent, and he shall knowe them? for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, and the iust shall walke in them: but the wicked shal fall therein.

  • Ps 92:6
    73%

    6An vnwise man knoweth it not, and a foole doeth not vnderstand this,

  • Isa 5:21
    72%

    21Woe vnto them that are wise in their owne eyes, and prudent in their owne sight.

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6You haue made a mocke at the counsell of the poore, because the Lord is his trust.

  • Jer 5:28
    72%

    28They are waxen fat and shining: they doe ouerpasse the deedes of the wicked: they execute no iudgement, no not the iudgement of the fatherlesse: yet they prosper, though they execute no iudgement for the poore.

  • Amos 3:10
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    10For they knowe not to doe right, sayth the Lorde: they store vp violence, and robbery in their palaces.

  • Jer 22:16
    72%

    16When he iudged the cause of the afflicted and the poore, he prospered: was not this because he knewe me, saith the Lorde?

  • Jer 2:8
    72%

    8The priests said not, Where is the Lorde? And they that should minister the Lawe, knewe me not: the pastours also offended against me, and the Prophets prophesied in Baal, and went after things that did not profite.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

    27Because they haue turned backe from him, and would not consider all his wayes:

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    72%

    1To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid. The foole hath said in his heart, There is no God: they haue corrupted, & done an abominable worke: there is none that doeth good.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4They haue set vp a King, but not by me: they haue made princes, and I knew it not: of their siluer and their gold haue they made them idoles: therefore shall they be destroyed.

  • Ps 53:1
    72%

    1To him that excelleth on Mahalath. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. The foole hath saide in his heart, There is no God. they haue corrupted & done abominable wickednes: there is none that doeth good.

  • Ps 28:5
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    5For they regarde not the woorkes of the Lorde, nor the operation of his handes: therefore breake them downe, and builde them not vp.

  • Isa 5:13
    72%

    13Therefore my people is gone into captiuitie, because they had no knowledge, and the glorie thereof are men famished, and the multitude thereof is dried vp with thirst.

  • Job 18:21
    72%

    21Surely such are the habitations of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

  • Job 24:13
    72%

    13These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

  • Job 17:4
    72%

    4For thou hast hid their heart from vnderstanding: therefore shalt thou not set them vp on hie.

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    4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.

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    1Better is ye poore that walketh in his vprightnes, then he that abuseth his lips, & is a foole.

  • Isa 1:3
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    3The oxe knoweth his owner, and the asse his masters crib: but Israel hath not knowen: my people hath not vnderstand.

  • Mic 3:1
    71%

    1And I sayd, Heare, I pray you, O heads of Iaakob, and yee princes of the house of Israel: should not ye knowe iudgement?

  • Eccl 10:15
    71%

    15The labour of the foolish doeth wearie him: for he knoweth not to goe into the citie.

  • Job 30:8
    71%

    8They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.