Isaiah 1:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The ox knows its owner, and the ass its master's crib; but Israel does not know, my people does not understand.”

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, he that formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 42:20

He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

Isaiah 44:18

They know not, nor do they discern; for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their minds, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 5:12

They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into exile for want of knowledge; their honored men are dying of hunger, and their multitude is parched with thirst.

Isaiah 56:11

The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols; for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 35:16

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have kept the command which their father gave them, but this people has not obeyed me.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are stupid children, they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but how to do good they know not.”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people have been lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, turning them away on the mountains; from mountain to hill they have gone, they have forgotten their fold.

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the heavens knows her times; and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming; but my people know not the ordinance of the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:30

“How lovesick is your heart, says the Lord God, seeing you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot;

Daniel 9:11

All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

Hosea 2:8

And she did not know that it was I who gave her the grain, the wine, and the oil, and who lavished upon her silver and gold which they used for Baal.

Matthew 13:19

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

Romans 1:28

And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a base mind and to improper conduct.

2 Peter 3:5

They deliberately ignore this fact, that by the word of God heavens existed long ago, and an earth formed out of water and by means of water,