Jeremiah 5:21

Good News Translation

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

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

Proverbs 17:16

It does a fool no good to spend money on an education, because he has no common sense.

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 43:8

God says, “Summon my people to court. They have eyes, but they are blind; they have ears, but they are deaf!

Isaiah 44:18

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

Jeremiah 10:8

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

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 5:20

The Lord says, “Tell the descendants of Jacob, tell the people of Judah:

Jeremiah 5:4

Then I thought, “These are only the poor and ignorant. They behave foolishly; they don't know what their God requires, what the Lord wants them to do.

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen to me if I spoke to them and warned them? They are stubborn and refuse to listen to your message; they laugh at what you tell me to say.

Jeremiah 7:13

You have committed all these sins, and even though I spoke to you over and over again, you refused to listen. You would not answer when I called you.

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 12:2

“Mortal man,” he said, “you are living among rebellious people. They have eyes, but they see nothing; they have ears, but they hear nothing, because they are rebellious.

Hosea 7:11

Israel flits around like a silly pigeon; first her people call on Egypt for help, and then they run to Assyria!

Zechariah 7:11

“But my people stubbornly refused to listen. They closed their minds

Mark 4:12

so that, ‘They may look and look, yet not see; they may listen and listen, yet not understand. For if they did, they would turn to God, and he would forgive them.’”

Mark 8:18

You have eyes—can't you see? You have ears—can't you hear? Don't you remember

John 12:40

“God has blinded their eyes and closed their minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their minds would not understand, and they would not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them.”

Acts 28:26

For he said, ‘Go and say to this people: You will listen and listen, but not understand; you will look and look, but not see,

Romans 1:20

Ever since God created the world, his invisible qualities, both his eternal power and his divine nature, have been clearly seen; they are perceived in the things that God has made. So those people have no excuse at all!

Romans 11:8

As the scripture says, “God made their minds and hearts dull; to this very day they cannot see or hear.”

Deuteronomy 29:3

You saw the terrible plagues, the miracles, and the great wonders that the Lord performed.

Deuteronomy 29:4

But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this the way you should treat the Lord, you foolish, senseless people? He is your father, your Creator, he made you into a nation.