Deuteronomy 32:28

KJV1611 – Modern English

For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

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  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father who has bought you? Has he not made you, and established you?
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs 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 who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And to man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.'
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to their own hearts' desires, and they walked in their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being a priest to me; seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive. 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly 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, and turn, and I would heal them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He catches the wise in their own craftiness.

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  • Deut 32:29
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    29O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should misbehave themselves, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD has not done all this.

  • Isa 41:28
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    28For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counselor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    29Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD;

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

  • Prov 21:30
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    30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, nor counsel against the LORD.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

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

  • Rom 3:11
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    11'There is none who understands, there is none who seeks after God.'

  • Isa 27:11
    72%

    11When its boughs 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 who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

  • Jer 5:21
    72%

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

  • Job 32:9
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    9Great men are not always wise, nor do the aged understand judgment.

  • Job 34:27
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    27Because they turned back from Him and would not consider any of His ways.

  • Ps 135:17
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    17They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • Job 39:17
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    17Because God has deprived her of wisdom, nor has He imparted to her understanding.

  • Job 17:4
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    4For You have hidden their heart from understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.

  • Prov 15:22
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    22Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established.

  • Job 12:24
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    24He takes away the heart of the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • Deut 32:20-21
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    20And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very perverse generation, children in whom there is no faith.

    21They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits' end.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

  • Mic 4:12
    71%

    12But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD, nor do they understand His counsel; for He shall gather them as sheaves into the threshing floor.

  • Isa 30:1-2
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    1Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, that seek counsel, but not from me; and that make a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

    2Who walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

  • Jer 7:28
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    28But you shall say to them, This is a nation that does not obey the voice of the LORD their God, nor receive correction: truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

  • Ps 28:5
    71%

    5Because they do not regard the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them and not build them up.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

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

  • Job 21:16
    71%

    16Indeed, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Deut 32:37
    71%

    37And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

  • Job 34:35
    71%

    35Job has spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.

  • Ps 14:1
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    1The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

  • Isa 30:5
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    5They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

  • Job 26:3
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    3How have you counseled him who has no wisdom? And how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

  • Isa 29:14-15
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    70%

    14Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

    15Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

  • Ps 115:7
    70%

    7They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat.

  • Hos 10:3
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    3For now they shall say, 'We have no king, because we did not fear the LORD; what then should a king do for us?'

  • Deut 28:50
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    50A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:

  • Deut 32:31
    70%

    31For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

  • Isa 5:13
    70%

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

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

  • Ps 33:10
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    10The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; he makes the plans of the people of no effect.

  • Ps 107:11
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    11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and despised the counsel of the Most High: