Jeremiah 4:22

American King James Version (1999)

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

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

And she laid up his garment by her, until his lord came home.

2 Samuel 13:3

But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother: and Jonadab was a very subtle man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good.

Psalm 36:4

He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he abhors not evil.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called on God.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people does not consider.

Isaiah 27:11

When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may you also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

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

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

Jeremiah 5:4

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.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is your heart, said the LORD GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman;

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel: for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 5:4

They will not frame their doings to turn to their God: for the spirit of prostitutions is in the middle of them, and they have not known the LORD.

Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, said the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Micah 2:1

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Luke 16:8

And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

John 16:3

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

Romans 1:22

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Romans 16:19

For your obedience is come abroad to all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise to that which is good, and simple concerning evil.

Romans 3:11

There is none that understands, there is none that seeks after God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, be not children in understanding: however, in malice be you children, but in understanding be men.

Deuteronomy 32:28

For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Do you thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?