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Jeremiah 5:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Pay attention to this, you foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear.

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Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you be wise?

Of what use is money in the hands of fools when they have no heart to acquire wisdom?

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Lead out the people, blind though they have eyes, deaf though they have ears.

They do not know, do not understand; their eyes are too clouded to see, their minds, to perceive.

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

My people are fools, they do not know me; They are senseless children, without understanding; They are wise at evil, but they do not know how to do good.

Announce this to the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:

I thought: These are only the lowly, they behave foolishly; For they do not know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.

To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot pay attention; See, the word of the Lord has become for them an object of scorn, for which they have no taste.

And now, because you have committed all these deeds—oracle of the Lord—because you did not listen, though I spoke to you untiringly, and because you did not answer, though I called you,

Even the stork in the sky knows its seasons; Turtledove, swift, and thrush observe the time of their return, But my people do not know the order of the Lord.

Son of man, you live in the midst of a rebellious house; they have eyes to see, but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear. They are such a rebellious house!

Ephraim is like a dove, silly and senseless; They call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.

But they refused to listen; they stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears so as not to hear.

so that ‘they may look and see but not perceive, and hear and listen but not understand, in order that they may not be converted and be forgiven.’”

Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear? And do you not remember,

“He blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and be converted, and I would heal them.”

‘Go to this people and say: You shall indeed hear but not understand. You shall indeed look but never see.

Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse;

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes that should not see and ears that should not hear, down to this very day.”

But the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear until this day.

I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;

Is this how you repay the Lord, so foolish and unwise a people? Is he not your father who begot you, the one who made and established you?




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