Jeremiah 4:22

Modern English Version

“For My people are foolish, they have not known Me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

She laid up his clothing next to her until his master came home.

2 Samuel 13:3

Now Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab the son of Shimeah, the brother of David, and Jonadab was a very crafty individual.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 36:4

He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Psalm 53:4

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and do not call on God?

Psalm 82:5

“They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, But those who seek the Lord understand it fully.

Isaiah 1:3

the ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib, but Israel does not know; My people do not consider.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are withered, they are broken off; the women come and make a fire with them, for they are not a people of understanding; therefore, their maker will not have mercy on them, and their Creator will show them no grace.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether unthinking and foolish; the wooden idol is worthless instruction.

Jeremiah 13:23

Can the Cushite change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then you also can do good, who are accustomed to doing evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests did not say, “Where is the Lord?” And those who handle the law did not know Me; the shepherds also transgressed against Me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and walked after things that do not profit.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see the standard and hear the sound of the trumpet?

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Jeremiah 5:4

Therefore I said, “Surely these are the poor. They are foolish; for they know not the way of the Lord or the judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they all are adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like their bow; lies and not truth prevail upon the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves in committing iniquity.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you do all these things, the works of an imperious harlot.

Hosea 4:1

Hear the word of the Lord, O Israelites, for the Lord has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land: There is no truth or mercy, and no knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 5:4

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for a spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know the Lord.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, storing up violence and destruction in their fortresses.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 7:3

Both hands are upon evil, to do it well. The prince and the judge request the bribe, the powerful asserts the craving of his very soul— they intertwine together.

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.

John 16:3

They will do these things to you, because they have not known the Father nor Me.

Romans 1:22

Claiming to be wise, they became fools.

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not proper.

Romans 16:19

Your obedience has become known to all men. Therefore I am glad on your behalf. Yet I want you to be wise in what is good, and innocent in what is evil.

Romans 3:11

there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks after God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brothers, do not be children in your thinking; rather be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.

Deuteronomy 32:28

For they are a nation devoid of counsel; there is no understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is He not your father, who has bought you? Has He not made you, and established you?