Y’all pay attention, you* senseless people! Fools! When will y’all be wise?
Isaiah 1:3 - Y'all Version Bible The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel 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. |
Y’all pay attention, you* senseless people! Fools! When will y’all be wise?
Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek YHWH 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 respect the work of YHWH, nor do they consider the work of ʜɪꜱ hands.
Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are starving, and their masses are parched with thirst.
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Everyone has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is shamed by his idol; for his molten image is deceitful, and there is no breath in them.
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols made of wood.
The sons of Jonadab the son of Rekab have observed the commandment that their father 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 skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”
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 stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming, but my people don’t know YHWH’s law.
“‘“How weak is your heart,” says Lord YHWH, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;
Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, for we have sinned against him.
For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
When anyone hears the word of the empire and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in their heart. This is the seed sown by the roadside.
Just as they refused to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not fitting,
For they willfully forget that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water.