Consider, ye brutish among the people;\par\tab And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Isaiah 1:3 - American Standard Version 2015 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; {\i but} Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The ox [instinctively] knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, but Israel does not know or recognize Me [as Lord], My people do not consider or understand. American Standard Version (1901) The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Common English Bible An ox knows its owner, and a donkey its master’s feeding trough. But Israel doesn’t know; my people don’t behave intelligently. Catholic Public Domain Version An ox knows his owner, and a donkey knows the manger of his lord, but Israel has not known me, and my people have not understood. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood. |
Consider, ye brutish among the people;\par\tab And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
Evil men understand not justice;\par\tab But they that seek Jehovah understand all things.
Go to the ant, thou sluggard;\par\tab Consider her ways, and be wise:
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.\par
Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.
They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
And the harp and the lute, the tabret and the pipe, and wine, are {\i in} their feasts; but they regard not the work of Jehovah, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.\par
Therefore my people are gone into captivity for lack of knowledge; and their honorable men are famished, and their multitude are parched with thirst.
Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Every man is become brutish {\i and is} without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Forasmuch as the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people hath not hearkened unto me;
For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.\par
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting-place.
Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah.\par
How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord Jehovah, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an impudent harlot;
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even turning aside, that they should not obey thy voice: therefore hath the curse been poured out upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, {\i then} cometh the evil {\i one}, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.
And even as they refused to have God in {\i their} knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;