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Jeremiah 5:21

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Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear:

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“Son of man, you are living among a rebellious people. They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.

“ ‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

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

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”

“My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good.”

Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don’t you remember?

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.

I thought, “These are only the poor; they are foolish, for they do not know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God.

They know nothing, they understand nothing; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their minds closed so they cannot understand.

Take notice, you senseless ones among the people; you fools, when will you become wise?

When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Why should fools have money in hand to buy wisdom, when they are not able to understand it?

Is this the way you repay the Lord, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father, your Creator, who made you and formed you?

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.

“Ephraim is like a dove, easily deceived and senseless— now calling to Egypt, now turning to Assyria.

They are all senseless and foolish; they are taught by worthless wooden idols.

so that, “ ‘they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding; otherwise they might turn and be forgiven!’ ”

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

Lead out those who have eyes but are blind, who have ears but are deaf.

“Announce this to the descendants of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:

To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the Lord is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.

“But they refused to pay attention; stubbornly they turned their backs and covered their ears.

With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.

While you were doing all these things, declares the Lord, I spoke to you again and again, but you did not listen; I called you, but you did not answer.




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