Isaiah 1:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.””
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“The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 1:3 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:28Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.
- Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
- Proverbs 6:6Walk in the manner of the ant, O slacker; observe its ways and become wise.
- Proverbs 28:5Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
- Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- Isaiah 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- Isaiah 42:20Though seeing many things, you do not keep watch. Though your ears are open, you do not hear.”
- Isaiah 44:18They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
- Jeremiah 4:22“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”
- Jeremiah 8:7Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 35:16Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 50:6My people are lost sheep; their shepherds have led them astray, causing them to roam the mountains. They have wandered from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.
- Matthew 13:13This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’
- Matthew 13:19When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- 2 Peter 3:5But they deliberately overlook the fact that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
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