Jeremiah 5:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You fools! Why don't you listen when I speak? Why can't you understand

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Can't you fools see? Won't you ever learn?

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have money for an education when they refuse to learn?

Isaiah 27:11

When broken branches fall to the ground, women pick them up to feed the fire. But these people are so stupid that the God who created them will show them no mercy.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring my people together. They have eyes and ears, but they can't see or hear.

Isaiah 44:18

Those who worship idols are stupid and blind!

Jeremiah 10:8

Idols are worthless, and anyone who worships them is a fool!

Jeremiah 4:22

I heard the LORD say, “My people ignore me. They are foolish children who do not understand that they will be punished. All they know is how to sin.”

Jeremiah 5:20

Tell these things to each other, you people of Judah, you descendants of Jacob.

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought to myself, “These common people act like fools, and they have never learnt what the LORD their God demands of them.

Jeremiah 6:10

I have told the people that you, LORD, will punish them, but they just laugh and refuse to listen.

Jeremiah 7:13

While you have been sinning, I have been trying to talk to you, but you refuse to listen.

Jeremiah 8:7

Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.

Ezekiel 12:2

Ezekiel, son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but refuse to see; they have ears, but refuse to listen.

Hosea 7:11

Israel is a senseless bird, fluttering back and forth between Egypt and Assyria.

Zechariah 7:11

But everyone who heard those prophets, stubbornly refused to obey. Instead, they turned their backs on everything my Spirit had commanded the earlier prophets to preach. So I, the LORD, became angry

Mark 4:12

The reason is, “These people will look and look, but never see. They will listen and listen, but never understand. If they did, they would turn to God, and he would forgive them.”

Mark 8:18

Are your eyes blind and your ears deaf? Don't you remember

John 12:40

“The Lord has blinded the eyes of the people, and he has made the people stubborn. He did this so that they could not see or understand, and so that they would not turn to the Lord and be healed.”

Acts 28:26

to tell our ancestors, ‘Go to these people and tell them: You will listen and listen, but never understand. You will look and look, but never see.

Romans 1:20

God's eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made. That's why those people don't have any excuse.

Romans 11:8

just as the Scriptures say, “God made them so stupid that their eyes are blind, and their ears are still deaf.”

Deuteronomy 29:4

He has even told you, “For forty years I, the LORD, led you through the desert, but your clothes and your sandals didn't wear out, and I gave you special food. I did these things so you would realize that I am your God.” But the LORD must give you a change of heart before you truly understand what you have seen and heard.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Israel, the LORD is your Father, the one who created you, but you repaid him by being foolish.