Jeremiah 5:4

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

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  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
  • 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 will also forget thy children.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
  • Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. 10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: 11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. 12 To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. 13 But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none 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 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

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    5 I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jer 5:20-21
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    20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

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

  • Jer 5:3
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    3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have 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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  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

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    4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.

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    5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

  • Deut 32:28-29
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    28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

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

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    4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

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    7 Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

    8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

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    12 But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

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

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

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    17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

  • Jer 8:8-9
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    8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

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    8 The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

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    7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor: but the wicked regardeth not to know it.

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    4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

  • Amos 5:11-12
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    11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens 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 wine of them.

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    3 The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.

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    9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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    6 A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

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    6 Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

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    1 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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    13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

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

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    8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.