Isaiah 1:3

Rebellious Judah

² Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against Me.
³ The ox knows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
but Israel does not know;
My people do not understand.” ⁴ Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,
brood of evildoers,
depraved children!
They have abandoned the Lord;
they have despised the Holy One of Israel;
they have turned their backs on Him.

My People

Israel

No

Jeremiah 8:7

Even the stork in the sky
knows her seasons.
The turtledove, swallow, and crane
are aware of their migration,
but My people do not know
the requirements of the Lord.

Isaiah 44:18

Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.

Deuteronomy 32:28-29

Israel is a nation lacking sense
with no understanding at all.

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, you stupid people!
Fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the ant, you slacker!
Observe its ways and become wise.

Isaiah 5:12

At their feasts they have lyre, harp,
tambourine, flute, and wine.
They do not perceive the Lord’s actions,
and they do not see the work of His hands.

Isaiah 27:11

When its branches dry out, they will be broken off.
Women will come and make fires with them,
for they are not a people with understanding.
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them,
and their Creator will not be gracious to them.

Jeremiah 4:22

“For My people are fools;
they do not know Me.
They are foolish children,
without understanding.
They are skilled in doing what is evil,
but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Jeremiah 9:3-6

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish,
instructed by worthless idols
made of wood!

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is stupid and ignorant.
Every goldsmith is put to shame
by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.

Matthew 13:13-15

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word about the kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the one sown along the path.

Romans 1:28

And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a worthless mind to do what is morally wrong.

2 Peter 3:5

They willfully ignore this: Long ago the heavens and the earth were brought about from water and through water by the word of God.