When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
Jeremiah 5:4 - English Standard Version 2016 Then I said, “These are only the poor; they have no sense; for they do not know 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 boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!
“For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are ‘wise’—in doing evil! But how to do good they know not.”
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord.
They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.