Deuteronomy 32:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.
  • Deut 32:6 : 6 To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father -- thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it `is' not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.
  • Isa 29:14 : 14 Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'
  • Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive, 15 for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;
  • 1 Cor 3:19 : 19 for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 32:29
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    29If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

  • Deut 32:27
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    27If not -- the anger of an enemy I fear, Lest their adversaries know -- Lest they say, Our hand is high, And Jehovah hath not wrought all this.

  • Isa 41:28
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    28And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:

  • Jer 5:4
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    4And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

  • Prov 1:29-30
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    74%

    29Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

    30They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

  • Prov 21:30
    73%

    30There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.

  • Jer 8:9
    73%

    9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

  • Rom 3:11
    73%

    11There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

  • Isa 27:11
    72%

    11In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it `is' not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

  • Job 32:9
    72%

    9The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

    27Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,

  • Ps 135:17
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    17Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!

  • Job 39:17
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    17For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

  • Job 17:4
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    4For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.

  • Prov 15:22
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    22Without counsel `is' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.

  • Job 12:24
    71%

    24Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!

  • Deut 32:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20And He saith: I hide My face from them, I see what `is' their latter end; For a froward generation `are' they, Sons in whom is no stedfastness.

    21They have made Me zealous by `no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by `no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

  • Ps 107:27
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    27They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

  • Mic 4:12
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    12They have not known the thoughts of Jehovah, Nor have they understood His counsel, For He hath gathered them as a sheaf `into' a threshing-floor.

  • Isa 30:1-2
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    71%

    1Wo `to' apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

    2Who are walking to go down to Egypt, And My mouth have not asked, To be strong in the strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow of Egypt.

  • Jer 7:28
    71%

    28And thou hast said unto them: This `is' the nation that hath not hearkened, To the voice of Jehovah its God, Nor have they accepted instruction, Perished hath stedfastness, Yea, it hath been cut off from their mouth.

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    71%

    5For they attend not to the doing of Jehovah, And unto the work of His hands. He throweth them down, And doth not build them up.

  • Ps 53:1
    71%

    1To the Overseer. -- `On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

  • Rom 3:17
    71%

    17And a way of peace they did not know.

  • Job 21:16
    71%

    16Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

  • Deut 32:37
    71%

    37And He hath said, Where `are' their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;

  • Job 34:35
    71%

    35Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.

  • Ps 92:6
    70%

    6A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

  • Ps 14:1
    70%

    1To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

  • Isa 30:5
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    5All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!

  • Job 26:3
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    3What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.

  • Isa 29:14-15
    2 verses
    70%

    14Therefore, lo, I am adding to do wonderfully with this people, A wonder, and a marvel, And perished hath the wisdom of its wise ones, And the understanding of its intelligent ones hideth itself.'

    15Wo `to' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

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    7Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;

  • Hos 10:3
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    3For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?

  • Deut 28:50
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    50a nation -- fierce of countenance -- which accepteth not the face of the aged, and the young doth not favour;

  • Deut 32:31
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    31For not as our Rock `is' their rock, (And our enemies `are' judges!)

  • Isa 5:13
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    13Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.

  • Prov 7:7
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    7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

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    10Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.

  • Ps 107:11
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    11Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.