When the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.
Jeremiah 5:4 - Tree of Life Version Then I said: These are only the poor. They are foolish. For they do not know the way of Adonai, the ordinance 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 the boughs are withered, they will be broken off. Women come and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore their Maker will show them no mercy—He who formed them will give them no grace.
Then the scroll is given to one who does not know books, saying, “Read this, please,” but he says, “I don’t know books.”
They are totally stupid and foolish. Discipline is useless—it’s wood!
“For My people are foolish. They do not know Me. They are senseless children, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they do not know.”
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed times, and the turtledove, swallow and crane observe the time of their migration, but My people do not know the judgments of Adonai.
Beware, everyone, of your neighbor! Don’t even trust a brother. For every brother grabs like Jacob and every neighbor spreads slander.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Since you rejected knowledge, I will also reject you from being My kohen. Since you forgot the Torah of your God, just so I will forget your children.
the blind see and the lame walk, those with tza'arat are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.