Isaiah 1:3

New English Translation

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it all.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.

Isaiah 42:20

You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

Isaiah 44:18

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

Isaiah 5:12

They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people will be deported because of their lack of understanding. Their leaders will have nothing to eat, their masses will have nothing to drink.

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.

Jeremiah 10:14

All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.

Jeremiah 10:8

The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

Jeremiah 35:16

Yes, the descendants of Jonadab son of Rechab have carried out the orders that their ancestor gave them. But you people have not obeyed me!

Jeremiah 4:22

The Lord answered, “This will happen because my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are like children who have no sense. They have no understanding. They are skilled at doing evil. They do not know how to do good.”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allow them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork knows when it is time to move on. The turtledove, swallow, and crane recognize the normal times for their migration. But my people pay no attention to what I, the Lord, require of them.

Ezekiel 16:30

“‘How sick is your heart, declares the sovereign Lord, when you perform all of these acts, the deeds of a bold prostitute.

Daniel 9:11

“All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.

Hosea 2:8

Yet until now she has refused to acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil; and that it was I who lavished on her the silver and gold – which they used in worshiping Baal!

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches what was sown in his heart; this is the seed sown along the path.

Romans 1:28

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

2 Peter 3:5

For they deliberately suppress this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago and an earth was formed out of water and by means of water.