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Isaiah 1:3

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An ox knows its owner, and a donkey knows its feeding trough; but my people don't know me, they don't understand me.

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Take another look, you stupid people! Fools—when will you ever get the point?

Evil people understand nothing about justice, but those who follow the Lord understand it completely.

Go and observe the ants, you slacker! Learn from what they do and become wise.

Their dry branches are broken off and used by women to make fires. This is a people that doesn't have any sense, so their Maker won't feel sorry for them, and their Creator won't help them.

You've looked at many things but have not really seen; you've heard but never really listened.”

How ignorant they are, how dumb! Their eyes have been plastered over so they can't see, their minds closed so they don't have insight.

At their feasts you have lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine, but you don't ever consider what the Lord is doing, and you don't recognize his help.

As a result my people will be exiled for their lack of understanding. Their honored leaders will starve, and the crowds will be dying of thirst.

They're greedy dogs that are never satisfied. They're sheepdogs who don't know their job. All of them go their own way, each of them looking out for themselves.

Everyone is stupid; they don't know anything. Every metalworker is embarrassed by the idols they make. For their images made of molten metal are fraudulent—they're not alive!

Yet these “wise men” are completely foolish and stupid, because they think they can be taught by useless idols made of wood!

These descendants of Jonadab son of Rechab have followed the command given to them by their forefather, but these people haven't obeyed me.

“My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are foolish children who just don't understand. They're experts at doing evil, but they don't know how to do good.”

My people are sheep that are lost, led astray by their shepherds, making them wander aimlessly in the mountains. They go from place to place in the mountains and hills, forgetting where they used to rest.

Even storks high in the sky know when it's time to migrate. Turtledoves, swifts, and songbirds know when to fly away at the right time of the year. But my people don't know the laws of the Lord.

You're really sick-minded to do all this, acting like a prostitute with no shame, declares the Lord God.

The whole of Israel has broken your law and turned away from you, not listening to what you had to say. That's why the condemnation that comes from our broken promise has been poured out on us—because of our sin, as made clear in the Law of Moses, the servant of the Lord.

She doesn't consider that it was me who gave her grain, new wine, and olive oil, nor the silver and the gold which I gave her abundantly that they made into an idol of Baal.

When people hear the message about the kingdom and don't understand it, the evil one comes along and rips out what was sown in them. This is what happens to the seeds sown on the path.

Since they didn't consider it worthwhile to get to know God, he abandoned them to their worthless, distrustful way of thinking, doing things that should never be done.

But they deliberately ignore the fact that by God's command the heavens were created long ago. The earth came into existence from the water, and was surrounded by water.




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