Jeremiah 5:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 17:16

How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Isaiah 43:8

Send out the blind people who have eyes, and those who have ears, but they are shut.

Isaiah 44:18

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Jeremiah 5:20

Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I said, But these are the poor: they are foolish, for they have no knowledge of the way of the Lord or of the behaviour desired by their God.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I sent my word to you, getting up early and sending, but you did not give ear; and my voice came to you, but you gave no answer:

Jeremiah 8:7

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you are living among an uncontrolled people, who have eyes to see but see not, and ears for hearing but they do not give ear; for they are an uncontrolled people.

Hosea 7:11

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Zechariah 7:11

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Mark 4:12

So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.

Mark 8:18

Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

John 12:40

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Acts 28:26

Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Romans 1:20

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

Romans 11:8

As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

Deuteronomy 29:3

The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.