Jeremiah 4:22 - Catholic Public Domain Version

²² For my foolish people have not known me. They are foolish and mad sons. They are clever in doing evil, but they do not know how to do good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² [Their chastisement will continue until it has accomplished its purpose] for My people are stupid, says the Lord [replying to Jeremiah]; they do not know and understand Me. They are thickheaded children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge [and know not how].

American Standard Version (1901)

²² For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Common English Bible

²² My people are foolish. They don’t even know me! They are thoughtless children without understanding; they are skilled at doing wrong, inept at doing right.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² For my foolish people have not known me: they are foolish and senseless children. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

English Standard Version 2016

²² “For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 4:22 Cross References

Genesis 39:16

As a proof, therefore, of her fidelity, she retained the cloak, and she showed it to her husband, when he returned home.

2 Samuel 13:3

Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, the brother of David: a very prudent man.

Psalm 36:3

Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches.

Psalm 36:4

Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart.

Psalm 53:4

O God, listen to my prayer. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 82:5

They have said, "Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer."

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not intend judgment. But those who inquire after the Lord turn their souls toward all things.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood.

Isaiah 27:11

Its harvest will be crushed by dryness. Women will arrive and teach it, for it is not a wise people. Because of this, he who made it will not take pity on it, and he who formed it will not spare it.

Jeremiah 10:8

Together, they will all be proven to be unwise and foolish. The doctrine of their vanity is made of wood.

Jeremiah 13:23

If the Ethiopian is able to change his skin, or the leopard is able to change his spots, then you also may be able to do well, though you have learned evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not sad: 'Where is the Lord?' And those who held the law did not know me. And the pastors betrayed me. And the prophets prophesied in Baal and followed idols.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I watch those who are fleeing, and listen to the voice of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 5:21

Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear.

Jeremiah 5:4

But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they have bent their tongue, like a bow, to send forth lies and not the truth. They have been strengthened upon the earth. And they have gone from one evil to another. But they have not known me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

And a man will deride his brother, and they will not speak the truth. For they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they have labored to commit iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:30

With what can I cleanse your heart, says the Lord God, since you do all these things, the works of a woman who is a shameless prostitute?

Hosea 4:1

Listen to the word of the Lord, sons of Israel, for the Lord is judge of the inhabitants of the land. Yet there is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God, in the land.

Hosea 4:6

My people have become silent because they had no knowledge. Since you have rejected knowledge, I will drive you away; you do not perform the duties of the priesthood for me, and you have forgotten the law of your God, and so I will forget your sons.

Hosea 5:4

They will not set their thoughts to return to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Amos 3:10

And they do not know how to make it right, says the Lord, storing up iniquity and plunder in their buildings.

Micah 2:1

Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the iniquitous steward, in that he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are more prudent with their generation than are the sons of light.

John 16:3

And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Romans 1:22

For, while proclaiming themselves to be wise, they became foolish.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

Romans 16:19

But your obedience has been made known in every place. And so, I rejoice in you. But I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple in what is evil.

Romans 3:11

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not choose to have the minds of children. Instead, be free of malice like infants, but be mature in your minds.

Deuteronomy 32:28

They are a nation without counsel and without prudence.

Deuteronomy 32:6

How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you?