Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Isaiah 1:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Yisra'el doesn't know, my people don't 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, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek the LORD understand it fully.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't regard the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.
Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved 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.
Because the sons of Yehonadav the son of Rechav have performed the mitzvah of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me;
For my people are foolish, they don't know me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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.
Yes, the khasidah in the sky knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don't know the LORD's law.
How weak is your heart, says the Lord GOD, seeing you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
Yes, all Yisra'el have transgressed your law, even turning aside, that they should not obey your voice: therefore has the curse been poured out on us, and the oath that is written in the Torah of Moshe the servant of God; for we have sinned against him.
For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Ba`al.
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water, by the word of God;