The vines will become dry. And the branches will break off. Women will use those branches for firewood.
Jeremiah 5:4 - Easy To Read Version 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 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. |
The vines will become dry. And the branches will break off. Women will use those branches for firewood.
Or you can give the book to a person that can’t read, and tell that person to read the book. That person will say, “I can’t read the book because I don’t know how to read.”
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
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
“Those people use their tongues like a bow;\par lies fly from their mouths like arrows.\par Lies, not truth, have grown strong in this land.\par Those people go from one sin to another.\par They don’t know me.”\par The Lord said these things.\par
“My people are destroyed because they have no knowledge. You have refused to learn. So I will refuse to let you be a priest for me. You have forgotten the law of your God, so I will forget your children.
Blind people are able to see again; crippled people are able to walk again; people that have leprosy {\cf2\super [131]} are healed; deaf people can hear again; dead people are raised from death; and the Good News {\cf2\super [132]} is told to the poor people.