When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
Jeremiah 5:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Then I thought: They are just the poor; they have been foolish. For they don’t understand the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then I said, Surely these are only the poor; they are [sinfully] foolish and have no understanding, for they know not the way of the Lord, the judgment (the just and righteous law) of their God. American Standard Version (1901) Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God: Common English Bible Then I thought to myself, These are the poor who don’t know better! They don’t understand the LORD’s way or the justice of their God. Catholic Public Domain Version But I said: Perhaps these are the poor and the senseless, who are ignorant of the way of the Lord, of the judgment of their God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgement of their God. |
When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it, he will say, ‘I can’t read.’
They are both stupid and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
Even storks in the sky know their seasons. Turtledoves, swallows, and cranes are aware of their migration, but my people do not know the requirements of the Lord.
They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the Lord’s declaration.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from serving as my priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your sons.
The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,