Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Jeremiah 5:21 - King James 2000 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not: 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. |
Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?
Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no heart for it?
When its boughs are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.
For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but how to do good they have no knowledge.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the law of their God.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
And now, because you have done all these works, says the LORD, and I spoke unto you, rising up early and speaking, but you heard not; and I called you, but you answered not;
Yea, the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times; and the turtledove and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of the LORD.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without sense: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
But they refused to hearken, and shrugged the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
Having eyes, see you not? and having ears, hear you not? and do you not remember?
He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, and be converted, and I should heal them.
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive:
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and deity; so that they are without excuse:
(According as it is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
The great trials which your eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Do you thus repay the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not he your father that has bought you? has he not made you, and established you?