Jeremiah 4:22 - Revised Standard Version

²² “For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”

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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.

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.

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.

Jeremiah 4:22 Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Then she laid up his garment by her until his master came home,

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shime-ah, David's brother; and Jonadab was a very crafty man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Psalm 36:4

He plots mischief while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he spurns not evil.

Psalm 53:4

Have those who work evil no understanding, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call upon God?

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the rulers transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal, and went after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long must I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 5:21

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, “These are only the poor, they have no sense; for they do not know the way of the Lord, the law of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

O that I had in the desert a wayfarers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Every one deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.

Ezekiel 16:30

“How lovesick is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O people of Israel; for the Lord has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or kindness, and no knowledge of God in the land;

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not permit them to return to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is within them, and they know not the Lord.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil upon their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Their hands are upon what is evil, to do it diligently; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

John 16:3

And they will do this because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

Romans 16:19

For while your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, I would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is evil;

Romans 3:11

no one understands, no one seeks for God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature.

Deuteronomy 32:28

“For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?