Jeremiah 5:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Then I said, Surely these are poor: they are foolish; for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgement of their God:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then I said, Surely these are only the poor; they are [sinfully] foolish and have no understanding, for they know not the way of the Lord, the judgment (the just and righteous law) of their God.

American Standard Version (1901)

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

Common English Bible

Then I thought to myself, These are the poor who don’t know better! They don’t understand the LORD’s way or the justice of their God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God.

Jeremiah 5:4 Cross References

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof 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 that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.

Isaiah 29:12

and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols, it is but a stock.

Jeremiah 4:22

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

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jeremiah 8:7

Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.