Jeremiah 4:22

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

For my fond [or foolish] people knew not me; they be unwise sons, and cowards; they be wise to do evils, but they know not to do well.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

Therefore into proving of the truth, she showed the mantle, that she held, to her husband turning again home.

2 Samuel 13:3

But there was a friend to Amnon, Jonadab by name, the son of Shimeah, the brother of David; and Jonadab was a full prudent [or a full sly] man.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth be wickedness and guile; he would not understand to do well.

Psalm 36:4

He thought wickedness in his bed; he stood nigh all ways not good; forsooth he hated not malice.

Psalm 53:4

Whether all men, that work wicked-ness, shall not know; which devour my people, as the meat of bread? They called not God;

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither under-stand, they go in darknesses; all the foundaments of [the] earth shall be moved.

Proverbs 28:5

Wicked men think not on doom; but they that seek the Lord, perceive all things.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox knew his lord, and an ass knew the cratch of his lord; but Israel knew not me, and my people under-stood not.

Isaiah 27:11

In the dryness of ripe corn thereof women coming, and they that teach it, shall be all-broken. Forsooth it is not a wise people; therefore he that made it, shall not have mercy on it, and he that formed it, shall not spare it.

Jeremiah 10:8

They shall be proved unwise and fools together; the teaching of their vanity is a tree.

Jeremiah 13:23

If a man of Ethiopia may change his skin, either a leopard may change his diversities, and ye may do well, when ye have learned evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

Priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that held the law, knew not me; and shepherds trespassed against me, and prophets prophesied in Baal, and followed idols.

Jeremiah 4:21

How long shall I see them that flee, shall I hear the voice of a clarion?

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear, thou fond [or foolish] people, that hast none heart; which have eyes, and see not, and ears, and hear not.

Jeremiah 5:4

Forsooth I said, In hap they be poor men, and fools, that know not the way of the Lord, and the doom of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who shall give me into a wilderness of diverse way-goers? And I shall forsake my people, and I shall go away from them. For why all be adulterers, and the companies of trespassers against the law;

Jeremiah 9:3

and they held forth their tongue as a bow of leasing, and not of truth. They be comforted in earth, for they went out from evil to evil, and they knew not me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

And a man shall scorn his brother, and shall not speak truth; for they taught their tongue to speak leasing; they travailed to do wickedly.

Ezekiel 16:30

In what thing shall I cleanse thine heart, saith the Lord God, when thou doest all these works of a woman, an whore, and greedy asker [or and bold to whoredom]?

Hosea 4:1

Sons of Israel, hear ye the word of the Lord, for why doom is to the Lord with the dwellers of earth; for why truth is not, and mercy is not, and knowing of the Lord is not in earth.

Hosea 4:6

My people was still, for it had not knowing; for thou hast put away knowing, I shall put thee away, that thou use not priesthood to me; and for thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, also I shall forget thy sons.

Hosea 5:4

They shall not give their thoughts that they turn again to their God; for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not the Lord.

Amos 3:10

And they could not or knew not how to do rightful [or right] thing, saith the Lord, and they treasured wickedness and raven in their houses.

Micah 2:1

Woe to you, that think unprofitable thing, and work evil in your beds; in the morrowtide light they do it, for the hand of them is against God.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they say good; the prince asketh, and the doomsman is in yielding; and a great man spake the desire of his soul, and they troubled altogether it.

Luke 16:8

And the lord praised the bailiff [or the farmer] of wickedness, for he had done prudently; for the sons of this world be more prudent in their generation, than the sons of light.

John 16:3

And they shall do to you these things, for they have not known the Father, neither me.

Romans 1:22

For they saying that themselves were wise, they were made fools.

Romans 1:28

And as they proved that they had not God in knowing, God betook them into a reprovable wit, that they do those things that be not covenable;

Romans 16:19

But your obedience is published into every place, therefore I have joy in you. But I will, that ye be wise in good thing, and simple in evil.

Romans 3:11

there is no man understanding, neither seeking God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, do not ye be made children in wits, but in malice be ye children; but in wits be ye perfect.

Deuteronomy 32:28

It is a folk without counsel, and without prudence, or wariness;

Deuteronomy 32:6

Whether thou yieldest these things to the Lord, thou fond [or foolish] people and unwise? Whether he is not thy father, that wielded thee, and made, and formed thee of nought?