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Jeremiah 5:4

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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.

Therefore I said {H559}, Surely these are poor {H1800}; they are foolish {H2973}: for they know {H3045} not the way {H1870} of the LORD {H3068}, nor the judgment {H4941} of their God {H430}.

My reaction was, "These must be the poor, the foolish, not knowing the way of ADONAI or the rulings of their God.

Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.

Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

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Cross-References

  • Jeremiah 8:7 (5 votes)

    Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

  • Hosea 4:6 (5 votes)

    ¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  • Matthew 11:5 (3 votes)

    The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

  • Isaiah 28:9 (3 votes)

    ¶ Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? [them that are] weaned from the milk, [and] drawn from the breasts.

  • Isaiah 28:13 (3 votes)

    But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, [and] there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

  • Isaiah 27:11 (3 votes)

    When the boughs thereof 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 shew them no favour.

  • Jeremiah 7:8 (2 votes)

    Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.