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Jeremiah 5:21

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Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.

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Pay attention, you stupid people! When will you become wise, you fools?

Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he doesn’t have a mind to grasp anything?

When the branches are dried up, they will be broken off. Women will come and build a fire with them. These people don’t understand ⌞these things⌟. That is why their maker won’t have compassion on them, and their Creator won’t have pity on them.

Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.

They don’t know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut, so they can’t see. And their minds are closed, so they can’t understand.

They are complete idiots. They learn nonsense from wooden idols.

“My people are fools. They don’t know me. They are stupid people. They don’t understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they don’t know how to do good.”

“Tell this to the descendants of Jacob, and make this heard in Judah:

I thought, “These are poor, foolish people. They don’t know the way of the Lord and the justice that God demands.

Whom can I speak to? Whom can I give a warning to? Who will listen? Their ears are plugged, and they aren’t able to pay attention. When the Lord speaks his word to them, they show contempt for it and object to it.

You have done the same things the people did at Shiloh,’ ” declares the Lord. “ ‘Although I spoke to you again and again, you did not listen. When I called you, you did not answer.

Even storks know when it’s time to return. Mourning doves, swallows, and cranes know when it’s time to migrate. But my people don’t know that I, the Lord, am urging them to return.

“Son of man, you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they can’t see. They have ears, but they can’t hear because they are rebellious people.

Ephraim, you are like a silly, senseless dove. You call for Egypt and run to Assyria for help.

“But people refused to pay attention. They shrugged their shoulders at me and shut their ears so that they couldn’t hear.

‘They see clearly but don’t perceive. They hear clearly but don’t understand. They never return to me and are never forgiven.’ ”

Are you blind and deaf? Don’t you remember?

“God blinded them and made them close-minded so that their eyes don’t see and their minds don’t understand. And they never turn to me for healing!”

The Spirit said: ‘Go to these people and say, “You will hear clearly but never understand. You will see clearly but never comprehend.

From the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly observed in what he made. As a result, people have no excuse.

as Scripture says, “To this day God has given them a spirit of deep sleep. Their eyes don’t see, and their ears don’t hear!”

You also saw those terrible plagues, those miraculous signs, and those spectacular, amazing things.

But to this day the Lord hasn’t given you a mind that understands, eyes that see, or ears that hear.

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and silly people? Isn’t he your Father and Owner, who made you and formed you?




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