Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Hear this, I pray you ye people - foolish and without heart, - Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, and hear not!
New American Standard Bible
Who have
Who have ears but do not hear.
King James Version
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
Holman Bible
you foolish and senseless
They have eyes, but they don’t see.
They have ears, but they don’t hear.
International Standard Version
"Hear this, you foolish and stupid people: They have eyes, but don't see; they have ears, but don't hear.
A Conservative Version
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding, who have eyes, and see not, who have ears, and hear not:
American Standard Version
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
Amplified
‘Now hear this, O foolish people without heart,
Who have eyes but do not see,
Who have ears but do not hear.
Bible in Basic English
Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
Darby Translation
Hear now this, O foolish and heartless people, who have eyes and see not; who have ears, and hear not.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear now this, O foolish people, and no heart; eyes to them and they will not see; and ears to them, and they will not hear:
King James 2000
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear this please, foolish and {senseless} people, {who have eyes} but do not see, {who have ears} but do not hear.'
Modern King James verseion
Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Hear this, thou foolish and indiscreet people: ye have eyes, but ye see not; ears have ye, but ye hear not.
NET Bible
Tell them: 'Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:
New Heart English Bible
'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:
Webster
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:
World English Bible
'Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don't see; who have ears, and don't hear:
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 5:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
An Invasion From The North
20 Tell ye this, throughout the house of Jacob, - And let it be heard throughout Judah saying: 21 Hear this, I pray you ye people - foolish and without heart, - Eyes, have they, and see not, Ears, have they, and hear not! 22 Even for me, will ye have no reverence? Enquireth Yahweh, And because of me, will ye not he pained? In that though I placed the sand as a bound to the sea, A decree age-abiding, and it should not pass beyond it, - When they would toss themselves Then should they not prevail, When the waves thereof would roar Then should they not pass beyond it,
Names
Cross References
Isaiah 6:9-10
Then said be - Go and say unto this people, - Hear on but do not discern, See on but do not perceive:
Ezekiel 12:2
Son of man. In the midst of a perverse house, dost thou dwell, - Who have eyes to see - and have not seen. Ears have they to hear - and have no heard, For a perverse house, they are.
Deuteronomy 32:6
Is it Yahweh, ye thus requite, O impious people and unwise? Is not, he, thy father who begat thee? He, that made thee and established thee?
John 12:40
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; lest they should see with their eyes, and should understand with their heart, and should turn, - and I should heal them.
Acts 28:26
saying - Go thy way unto this people, and say - Ye shall, surely hear, and yet will in nowise understand. And, surely see, and yet will in nowise perceive;
Romans 11:8
Even as it is written - God hath given unto them a spirit of stupor, - eyes not to see, and ears not to hear, - until this very day;
Deuteronomy 29:4
yet hath Yahweh not given onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see or ears to hear, - until this day.
Psalm 94:8
Understand, ye brutish among the people, And, ye dullards, when will ye show discretion?
Proverbs 17:16
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a dullard? that he who is without sense, may acquire wisdom.
Isaiah 27:11
When the cut-off boughs thereof are dry, they shall be broken to pieces, Women, coming, are kindling it! For it is not a people of understanding, For this cause, Will he that made him, not have compassion upon him, And, he that formed him, will shew him no favour.
Isaiah 44:18
They have not taken note, neither can they perceive, - He hath besmeared - past seeing - their eyes, Past understanding, their hearts;
Jeremiah 4:22
Surely, perverse, is my people Me, have they not known, Foolish sons, they are, Yea without understanding, they are: Wise, they are to commit wickedness, But how to do well, they know not!
Jeremiah 5:4
And, I, said, - Only, poor people, are they, - They act foolishly, For they know not the way of Yahweh, the justice of their God!
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, And the turtle and the swallow and the crane, observe the season for coming; But my people know not the just sentence of Yahweh.
Jeremiah 10:8
But at once, do they become brutish and stupid, - An example of utmost vanity, is, a tree!
Hosea 7:11
So then, Ephraim, hath become, like a simple dove, having no understanding, on Egypt, have they called, to Assyria, have they gone,
Matthew 13:13-15
For this reason, in parables, unto them, do I speak, - because, seeing, they see not, and, hearing, they hear not, - neither do they understand.
Mark 8:18
Eyes having, see ye not? and ears having, hear ye not? and remember ye not