Deuteronomy 32:28

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They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:22 : 22 The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 Is this how you repay the LORD, you foolish, unwise people? Is he not your father, your Creator? He has made you and established you.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And he said to mankind,‘The fear of the LORD– that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Introduction to the Theme of the Book Fearing the LORD is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend. 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: A partial hardening has happened to Israel until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 32:29
    83%

    29I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”

  • Jer 4:22
    79%

    22The LORD answered,“This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

  • Jer 10:8
    75%

    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

  • Isa 44:18
    75%

    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Deut 32:27
    75%

    27But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’

  • Isa 41:28
    75%

    28I look, but there is no one, among them there is no one who serves as an adviser, that I might ask questions and receive answers.

  • Jer 5:4
    74%

    4I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them.

  • Prov 1:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

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

    30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.

  • Prov 21:30
    73%

    30There is no wisdom and there is no understanding, and there is no counsel against the LORD.

  • Jer 8:9
    73%

    9Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?

  • Ps 82:5
    73%

    5They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

  • Rom 3:11
    73%

    11there is no one who understands, there is no one who seeks God.

  • Isa 27:11
    72%

    11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

  • Jer 5:21
    72%

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Job 32:9
    72%

    9It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

    27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

  • Ps 135:17
    72%

    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

  • Job 39:17
    72%

    17For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

  • Job 17:4
    72%

    4Because you have closed their minds to understanding, therefore you will not exalt them.

  • Prov 15:22
    72%

    22Plans fail when there is no counsel, but with abundant advisers they are established.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

  • Deut 32:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20He said,“I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

    21They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

  • Ps 107:27
    71%

    27They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.

  • Ps 94:8
    71%

    8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

  • Mic 4:12
    71%

    12But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

  • Isa 30:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1Egypt Will Prove Unreliable“The rebellious children are as good as dead,” says the LORD,“those who make plans without consulting me, who form alliances without consulting my Spirit, and thereby compound their sin.

    2They travel down to Egypt without seeking my will, seeking Pharaoh’s protection, and looking for safety in Egypt’s protective shade.

  • Jer 7:28
    71%

    28So tell them:‘This is a nation that has not obeyed the LORD their God and has not accepted correction. Faithfulness is nowhere to be found in it. These people do not even profess it anymore.

  • Ps 28:5
    71%

    5For they do not understand the LORD’s actions, or the way he carries out justice. The LORD will permanently demolish them.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1For the music director; according to the machalath style; a well-written song by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17and the way of peace they have not known.”

  • Job 21:16
    71%

    16But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

  • Deut 32:37
    71%

    37He will say,“Where are their gods, the rock in whom they sought security,

  • Job 34:35
    71%

    35that Job speaks without knowledge and his words are without understanding.

  • Ps 92:6
    70%

    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Ps 14:1
    70%

    1For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • Isa 30:5
    70%

    5all will be put to shame because of a nation that cannot help them, who cannot give them aid or help, but only shame and disgrace.”

  • Job 26:3
    70%

    3How you have advised the one without wisdom, and abundantly revealed your insight!

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Therefore I will again do an amazing thing for these people– an absolutely extraordinary deed. Wise men will have nothing to say, the sages will have no explanations.”

    15Those who try to hide their plans from the LORD are as good as dead, who do their work in secret and boast,“Who sees us? Who knows what we’re doing?”

  • Ps 115:7
    70%

    7hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

  • Hos 10:3
    70%

    3The Lord Will Punish Israel by Removing Its Kings Very soon they will say,“We have no king since we did not fear the LORD. But what can a king do for us anyway?”

  • Deut 28:50
    70%

    50a nation of stern appearance that will have no regard for the elderly or pity for the young.

  • Deut 32:31
    70%

    31For our enemies’ rock is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.

  • Isa 5:13
    70%

    13Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

  • Prov 7:7
    70%

    7and I saw among the naive– I discerned among the youths– a young man who lacked sense.

  • Ps 33:10
    70%

    10The LORD frustrates the decisions of the nations; he nullifies the plans of the peoples.

  • Ps 107:11
    70%

    11because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the Most High.