Isaiah 1:3

Good News Translation

Cattle know who owns them, and donkeys know where their master feeds them. But that is more than my people Israel know. They don't understand at all.”

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

My people, how can you be such stupid fools? When will you ever learn?

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not know what justice is, but those who worship the Lord understand it well.

Proverbs 6:6

Lazy people should learn a lesson from the way ants live.

Isaiah 27:11

The branches of the trees are withered and broken, and women gather them for firewood. Because the people have understood nothing, God their Creator will not pity them or show them any mercy.

Isaiah 42:20

Israel, you have seen so much, but what has it meant to you? You have ears to hear with, but what have you really heard?”

Isaiah 44:18

Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.

Isaiah 5:12

At your feasts you have harps and tambourines and flutes—and wine. But you don't understand what the Lord is doing,

Isaiah 5:13

and so you will be carried away as prisoners. Your leaders will starve to death, and the common people will die of thirst.

Isaiah 56:11

They are like greedy dogs that never get enough. These leaders have no understanding. They each do as they please and seek their own advantage.

Jeremiah 10:14

At the sight of this, people feel stupid and senseless; those who make idols are disillusioned, because the gods they make are false and lifeless.

Jeremiah 10:8

All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?

Jeremiah 35:16

Jonadab's descendants have obeyed the command that their ancestor gave them, but you people have not obeyed me.

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord says, “My people are stupid; they don't know me. They are like foolish children; they have no understanding. They are experts at doing what is evil, but failures at doing what is good.”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like sheep whose shepherds have let them get lost in the mountains. They have wandered like sheep from one mountain to another, and they have forgotten where their home is.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even storks know when it is time to return; doves, swallows, and thrushes know when it is time to migrate. But, my people, you do not know the laws by which I rule you.

Ezekiel 16:30

This is what the Sovereign Lord is saying: “You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.

Daniel 9:11

All Israel broke your laws and refused to listen to what you said. We sinned against you, and so you brought on us the curses that are written in the Law of Moses, your servant.

Hosea 2:8

She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.

Matthew 13:19

Those who hear the message about the Kingdom but do not understand it are like the seeds that fell along the path. The Evil One comes and snatches away what was sown in them.

Romans 1:28

Because those people refuse to keep in mind the true knowledge about God, he has given them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the things that they should not do.

2 Peter 3:5

They purposely ignore the fact that long ago God gave a command, and the heavens and earth were created. The earth was formed out of water and by water,