Jeremiah 5:21

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you brutish among the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 17:16

Why is money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom since he has no heart for it?

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.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

Isaiah 44:18

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

Jeremiah 10:8

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

Jeremiah 4:22

“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.”

Jeremiah 5:20

Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah, saying:

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 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.

Jeremiah 7:13

And now, because you have done all these works, says the Lord, and I spoke to you, rising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I called you, but you did not answer,

Jeremiah 8:7

Indeed, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. And the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming. But My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, which has eyes to see and does not see, ears to hear and does not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Hosea 7:11

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and without sense; they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears so that they should not hear.

Mark 4:12

so that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand; lest they should turn, and their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

Mark 8:18

Having eyes, do you not see? Having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”

Acts 28:26

‘Go to this people and say: You shall certainly hear, but never understand; and you shall certainly see, but never perceive;

Romans 1:20

The invisible things about Him—His eternal power and deity —have been clearly seen since the creation of the world and are understood by the things that are made, so that they are without excuse.

Romans 11:8

As it is written: “God has given them a spirit of slumber, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

Deuteronomy 29:3

the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders.

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

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?