Isaiah 1:3

The Passion Translation

Even a dumb ox instinctively knows its owner and the stubborn mule knows the hand that feeds it, but Israel does not know me nor do my people understand.”

Cross References

Psalm 94:8

But you’d better watch out, you stupid fools! You’d better wise up! Why would you act like God doesn’t exist? Do you really think that God can’t hear their cries?

Proverbs 28:5

Justice never makes sense to men devoted to darkness, but those tenderly devoted to the Lord can understand justice perfectly.

Proverbs 6:6

When you’re feeling lazy, come and learn a lesson from this tale of the tiny ant. Yes, all you lazybones, come learn from the example of the ant and enter into wisdom.

Isaiah 27:11

The trees are withered and stripped bare, and their women gather dead branches for firewood, because they are a people of no understanding. That is why their Maker will show them no compassion, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

Isaiah 42:20

Israel, you have seen so much, but you don’t get it! You have been taught so much, but what did you really hear?

Isaiah 44:18

They have no clue what they’re doing and don’t comprehend how absurd it is! For they shut their eyes so they cannot see. They close their hearts so they cannot understand.

Isaiah 5:12

Their lavish parties are complete with the music of harps and flutes—and the wine flows! Yet they have no respect for what Yahweh has done, nor do they contemplate the work of his hands!

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore, my people go into exile for lack of understanding. Their leaders are starving, their multitudes parched with thirst.

Isaiah 56:11

They’re greedy dogs that never eat enough. And the shepherds have no discernment; they follow their own desires. Every last one of them seeks his own profit.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is ignorant, knowing nothing. Every craftsman is shamed by the idols they make since their idols are nothing but lifeless lies.

Jeremiah 10:8

What wisdom could they glean from a block of wood? They are foolish blockheads, one and all.

Jeremiah 35:16

The descendants of Jonadab and Rechab have kept the command their ancestor gave them, but your people have not listened to me.

Jeremiah 4:22

“My people are foolish because they don’t know who I really am. They are reckless, senseless children. They think they are wise, but they are cunning in sinfulness and clueless in righteousness.”

Jeremiah 50:6

“My people are like lost sheep; their shepherds led them astray. They are lost, wandering about in the mountains. They went from mountain to hill, forgetting their resting place.

Jeremiah 8:7

“Even the stork in the skies knows her season of migration. And migratory birds—the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane — instinctively take flight according to the times I have set for them, but my people pay no attention to the orders of Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:30

“ ‘I, Lord Yahweh, say: You make me extremely angry because of all these things that you have done. You have acted like a brazen prostitute who has no shame.

Daniel 9:11

All the people of Israel have ignored your voice; we have defied your instructions and gone astray. Now, the solemn curses confirmed by your promises of punishment in the law of your servant Moses have been poured out upon us because we sinned against you.

Matthew 13:19

“What was sown along the path represents the one who listens to the message of the kingdom but doesn’t understand it. The Adversary then comes and snatches away what was sown into his heart.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to embrace the true knowledge of God, God gave them over to a worthless mind-set, to break all rules of proper conduct.

2 Peter 3:5

But they conveniently overlook that from the beginning, the heavens and earth were created by God’s word. He spoke and the dry ground separated from the waters.