Isaiah 1:3

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Summary

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

Ox

Proverbs 6:6

Jeremiah 8:7

But israel

General references

Jeremiah 35:16

Bible References

Ox

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

But israel

And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

General references

Though the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have done the orders of their father which he gave them, this people has not given ear to me: