Jeremiah 4:22

Young's Literal Translation 1898

For my people are foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons are they, yea, they are not intelligent, Wise are they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

Cross References

Genesis 39:16

And she placeth his garment near her, until the coming in of his lord unto his house.

2 Samuel 13:3

And Amnon hath a friend, and his name is Jonadab, son of Shimeah, David's brother, and Jonadab is a very wise man,

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently--to do good.

Psalm 36:4

Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

Psalm 53:4

Have not workers of iniquity known, Those eating my people have eaten bread, God they have not called.

Psalm 82:5

They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men understand not judgment, And those seeking Jehovah understand all.

Isaiah 1:3

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

Isaiah 27:11

In the withering of its branch it is broken off, Women are coming in setting it on fire, For it is not a people of understanding, Therefore pity it not doth its Maker, And its Former doth not favour it.

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Jeremiah 13:23

Doth a Cushite change his skin? and a leopard his spots? Ye also are able to do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

Jeremiah 2:8

The priests have not said, `Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Jeremiah 4:21

Till when do I see an ensign? Do I hear the voice of a trumpet?

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

Jeremiah 5:4

And I--I said, `Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

Jeremiah 9:2

Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue, their bow is a lie, And not for stedfastness have they been mighty in the land, For from evil unto evil they have gone forth, And Me they have not known, An affirmation of Jehovah!

Jeremiah 9:5

And each at his friend they mock, And truth they do not speak, They taught their tongue to speak falsehood, To commit iniquity they have laboured.

Ezekiel 16:30

How weak is thy heart, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, In thy doing all these, The work of a domineering whorish woman.

Hosea 4:1

`Hear a word of Jehovah, sons of Israel, For a strife is to Jehovah with inhabitants of the land, For there is no truth, nor kindness, Nor knowledge of God, in the land,

Hosea 4:6

Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

Hosea 5:4

They give not up their habitual doings, To turn back unto their God, For a spirit of whoredoms is in their midst, And Jehovah they have not known.

Amos 3:10

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is--to God.

Micah 7:3

On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking--also the judge--for recompence, And the great--he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

Luke 16:8

`And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

John 16:3

and these things they will do to you, because they did not know the Father, nor me.

Romans 1:22

professing to be wise, they were made fools,

Romans 1:28

And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;

Romans 16:19

for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

Romans 3:11

There is none who is understanding, there is none who is seeking after God.

1 Corinthians 14:20

Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

Deuteronomy 32:28

For a nation lost to counsels are they, And there is no understanding in them.

Deuteronomy 32:6

To Jehovah do ye act thus, O people foolish and not wise? Is not He thy father--thy possessor? He made thee, and doth establish thee.