Verse 28

For they are a nation void of counsel, There is no understanding in them.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish 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 requite Yahweh, Foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he who made them will not have compassion 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; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
  • Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, That they might walk in their own counsels.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of 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, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: 15 For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness."