Jeremiah 5:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:7 : 7 Even a stork in the heavens hath known her seasons, And turtle, and swallow, and crane, Have watched the time of their coming, And -- My people have not known the judgment of Jehovah.
  • 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 11:5 : 5 blind receive sight, and lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and deaf hear, dead are raised, and poor have good news proclaimed,
  • 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 28:9-9 : 9 By whom doth He teach knowledge? And by whom doth He cause to understand the report? The weaned from milk, the removed from breasts, 10 For rule `is' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, 11 For by scorned lip, and by another tongue, Doth He speak unto this people. 12 Unto whom He hath said, `This `is' the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear, 13 And to whom a word of Jehovah hath been, Rule on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there, So that they go and have stumbled backward, And been broken, and snared, and captured.
  • 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.
  • Jer 7:8 : 8 Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.
  • John 7:48-49 : 48 did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees? 49 but this multitude, that is not knowing the law, is accursed.'

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Jer 5:5
    82%

    5I get me to the great, and I speak with them, For they have known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.' Surely they together have broken the yoke, They have drawn away the bands.

  • Jer 4:22
    81%

    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 5:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20Declare ye this in the house of Jacob, And sound ye it in Judah, saying,

    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.

  • Jer 5:3
    76%

    3Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

  • Ps 82:5
    76%

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

  • Isa 44:18
    75%

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

  • Hos 5:4
    75%

    4They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms `is' in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.

  • Prov 28:5
    75%

    5Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

  • Deut 32:28-29
    2 verses
    74%

    28For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

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

  • Ps 14:4
    74%

    4Have all working iniquity not known? Those consuming my people have eaten bread, Jehovah they have not called.

  • Ps 94:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7And they say, `Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

    8Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

  • Mic 4:12
    74%

    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.

  • Prov 4:19
    74%

    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • Rom 3:17
    74%

    17And a way of peace they did not know.

  • Ps 107:17
    74%

    17Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

  • Jer 8:8-9
    2 verses
    73%

    8How do ye say, We `are' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes.

    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?

  • Isa 59:8
    73%

    8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

  • Prov 29:7
    73%

    7The righteous knoweth the plea of the poor, The wicked understandeth not knowledge.

  • Ps 53:4
    73%

    4Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

    12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

  • Prov 19:3
    73%

    3The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

  • Jer 9:13
    73%

    13And Jehovah saith: Because of their forsaking My law that I set before them, And they have not hearkened to My voice nor walked in it,

  • Hos 14:9
    73%

    9Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

  • Ps 92:6
    73%

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

  • Isa 5:21
    72%

    21Wo `to' the wise in their own eyes, And -- before their own faces -- intelligent!

  • Ps 14:6
    72%

    6The counsel of the poor ye cause to stink, Because Jehovah `is' his refuge.

  • Jer 5:28
    72%

    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Amos 3:10
    72%

    10And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

  • Jer 22:16
    72%

    16He decided the cause of the poor and needy, Then `it is' well -- is it not to know Me? An affirmation of Jehovah.

  • Jer 2:8
    72%

    8The priests have not said, `Where `is' Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

  • Job 34:27
    72%

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

  • Ps 14:1
    72%

    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.

  • Hos 8:4
    72%

    4They have made kings, and not by Me, They have made princes, and I have not known, Their silver and their gold they have made to them idols, So that they are cut off.

  • Ps 53:1
    72%

    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.

  • Ps 28:5
    72%

    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.

  • Isa 5:13
    72%

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

  • Job 18:21
    72%

    21Only these `are' tabernacles of the perverse, And this the place God hath not known.

  • Job 24:13
    72%

    13They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

  • Job 17:4
    72%

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

  • Job 24:4
    72%

    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

  • Prov 19:1
    72%

    1Better `is' the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse `in' his lips, who `is' a fool.

  • Isa 1:3
    71%

    3An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

  • Mic 3:1
    71%

    1And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

  • Eccl 10:15
    71%

    15The labour of the foolish wearieth him, In that he hath not known to go unto the city.

  • Job 30:8
    71%

    8Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.