Deuteronomy 32:28
For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.
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- 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;'
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29 If they were wise -- They deal wisely `with' this; They attend to their latter end:
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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.
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8 And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.
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18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.
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27 If 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.
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28 And I see that there is no man, Yea, of these that there is no counsellor, And I ask them, and they return word:
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4 And 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.
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29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
30 They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
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30 There is no wisdom, nor understanding, Nor counsel, over-against Jehovah.
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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?
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5 They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.
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11 There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.
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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.
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21 Hear 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.
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9 The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.
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27 Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
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17 Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!
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17 For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:
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4 For their heart Thou hast hidden From understanding, Therefore Thou dost not exalt them.
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22 Without counsel `is' the making void of purposes, And in a multitude of counsellors it is established.
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24 Turning aside the heart Of the heads of the people of the land, And he causeth them to wander In vacancy -- no way!
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20 And 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.
21 They 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.
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27 They reel to and fro, and move as a drunkard, And all their wisdom is swallowed up.
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8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
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12 They 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.
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1 Wo `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.
2 Who 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.
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28 And 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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5 For 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.
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1 To 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.
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17 And a way of peace they did not know.
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16 Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
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37 And He hath said, Where `are' their gods -- The rock in which they trusted;
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35 Job -- not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words `are' not with wisdom.
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6 A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --
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1 To 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.
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5 All he made ashamed of a people that profit not, Neither for help, not for profit, But for shame, and also for reproach!
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3 What -- thou hast given counsel to the unwise, And wise plans in abundance made known.
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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.'
15 Wo `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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7 Their hands, but they handle not, Their feet, and they walk not;
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3 For now they say: We have no king, Because we have not feared Jehovah, And the king -- what doth he for us?
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31 For not as our Rock `is' their rock, (And our enemies `are' judges!)
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13 Therefore my people removed without knowledge, And its honourable ones are famished, And its multitude dried up of thirst.
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7 And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
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10 Jehovah made void the counsel of nations, He disallowed the thoughts of the peoples.
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11 Because they changed the saying of God, And the counsel of the Most High despised.