You bad people are foolish.\par When will you learn your lesson?\par You evil people are so stupid!\par You must try to understand.\par
Jeremiah 5:21 - Easy To Read Version Hear this message.\par You foolish people have no sense:\par ‘You have eyes, but you don’t see!\par You have ears, but you don’t listen!’\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear now this, O foolish people without understanding or heart, who have eyes and see not, who have ears and hear not: [Isa. 6:9, 10; Matt. 13:10-15; Mark 8:17, 18.] American Standard Version (1901) Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not: Common English Bible Listen, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but don’t see and ears but don’t hear. Catholic Public Domain Version Listen, O foolish people who have no heart! You have eyes, but you do not see, and ears, but you do not hear. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Hear, O foolish people, and without understanding: who have eyes and see not, and ears and hear not. |
You bad people are foolish.\par When will you learn your lesson?\par You evil people are so stupid!\par You must try to understand.\par
If a foolish person has money, it is wasted. Why? Because that foolish person does not use the money to become wise.
The vines will become dry. And the branches will break off. Women will use those branches for firewood.
\{God says,\}“Bring out the people that have eyes but are blind. Bring out the people that have ears but are deaf. {\cf2\super [385]}
Those people don’t know what they are doing. They don’t understand! It is like their eyes are covered so they can’t see. Their hearts (minds) don’t try to understand.
All the people of the other nations are stupid and foolish.\par Their teachings come from worthless wooden statues.\par
\{God said,\} “My people are foolish.\par They don’t know me.\par They are stupid children.\par They don’t understand.\par They are skillful at doing evil,\par but they don’t know how to do good.”\par
\{The Lord said,\}\par “Tell this message to the family of Jacob.\par Tell this message in the nation of Judah:\par
But I (Jeremiah) said to myself,\par “It must be only the poor people\par that are so foolish.\par Poor people have not learned\par the way of the Lord.\par Poor people don’t know\par the teachings of their God.\par
Who can I speak to?\par Who can I warn?\par Who will listen to me?\par The people of Israel have closed their ears,\par so they can’t hear my warnings.\par The people don’t like the Lord’s teachings.\par They don’t want to hear his message.\par
You people of Israel were doing all these evil things”—This message is from the Lord!—“I spoke to you again and again, but you refused to listen to me. I called to you, but you did not answer.
Even the birds in the sky\par know the right time to do things.\par The storks, doves, swifts, and thrushes\par know when it is time to fly to a new home.\par But my people don’t know what the Lord wants them to do.\par
“Son of man, {\cf2\super [102]} you live among rebellious people—they always turn against me. They have eyes to see \{the things I have done for them\}. But they don’t see those things. They have ears to hear \{the things I told them to do\}. But they don’t hear my commands. Why? Because they are a rebellious people.
So Ephraim has become like a silly dove without understanding.\par The people called to Egypt for help.\par The people went to Assyria for help.\par
But those people refused to listen.\par They refused to do what he wanted.\par They closed their ears so they\par could not hear what God said.\par
Do you have eyes that can’t see? Do you have ears that can’t hear? Remember what I did before, when we did not have enough bread?
“God made the people blind.\par God closed their minds.\par God did this so that they will not\par see with their eyes\par and understand with their minds.\par God did this so that they would not turn and be healed.”\par \i (Isaiah 6:10)\i0 \par
‘Go to this people (the Jews) and tell them:\par You will listen and you will hear,\par but you will not understand!\par You will look and you will see,\par but you will not understand\par what you see!\par
There are things about God that people cannot see—his eternal power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning of the world those things have been easy for people to understand. Those things are made clear in the things that God has made. So people have no excuse for the bad things they do.
You saw the great troubles he gave them. You saw the miracles and amazing things he did.
But even today you still don’t understand what happened. The Lord has not let you really understand what you saw and heard.
Is that the way you should pay back the Lord {for all that he did for you? No!} You are stupid, foolish people. The Lord is your Father. He made you. He is your Creator. He supports you.