Jeremiah 5:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.”
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““Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 5:21 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:3You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
- Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- Deuteronomy 32:6Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?
- Psalms 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
- Proverbs 17:16Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
- Isaiah 6:9And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- 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 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 5:4Then 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.
- Jeremiah 7:13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,
- 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 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
- Ezekiel 12:2“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
- Hosea 7:11So Ephraim has become like a silly, senseless dove— calling out to Egypt, then turning to Assyria.
- 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.’
- Mark 8:18‘Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear?’ And do you not remember?
- John 12:40“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.”
- Acts 28:26‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”
- Romans 11:8as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
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