Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding.

New American Standard Bible

“An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel does not know,
My people do not understand.”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The ox knows its owner,
and the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
but Israel does not know;
My people do not understand.”

International Standard Version

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's feeding trough, but Israel doesn't know, and my people don't understand.

A Conservative Version

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“The ox [instinctively] knows its owner,
And the donkey its master’s feeding trough,
But Israel does not know [Me as Lord],
My people do not understand.”

Bible in Basic English

Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.

Darby Translation

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib; Israel doth not know, my people hath no intelligence.

Julia Smith Translation

. The ox knew his possessor, and the ass his lord's stall: Israel knew not; my people understood not

King James 2000

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.

Lexham Expanded Bible

An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.

Modern King James verseion

The ox knows his owner, and the ass his master's crib; but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.

NET Bible

An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand."

New Heart English Bible

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people do not consider.

The Emphasized Bible

An ox knoweth, his owner, And an ass his masters crib, - Israel, doth not know, My people doth not consider.

Webster

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

World English Bible

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib; but Israel doesn't know, my people don't consider."

Youngs Literal Translation

An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The ox
שׁור 
Showr 
ox, bullock, cow, bull, wall
Usage: 78

קנה 
Qanah 
Usage: 84

and the ass
חמר חמור 
Chamowr 
ass
Usage: 96

H18
אבוּס 
'ebuwc 
Usage: 4

but Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

Images Isaiah 1:3

Prayers for Isaiah 1:3

Context Readings

Rebellious Judah

2 Hear O heaven, and hearken O earth, for the LORD hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they are fallen away from me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the Ass his master's crib; but Israel knoweth nothing. My people hath no understanding. 4 Alas for this sinful nation, which are expert in blasphemies; a seed of ungracious people, corrupt in their ways. They have forsaken the LORD; they have provoked the holy one of Israel unto anger, and are gone backward.


Cross References

Jeremiah 8:7

The Stork knoweth her appointed time; the Turtledove, the Swallow and the Crane consider the time of their travail: but my people will not know the time of the punishment of the LORD.

Isaiah 44:18

Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive.

Deuteronomy 32:28-29

"'For it is a nation that hath an unhappy forecast, and hath no understanding in them.

Psalm 94:8

Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

Proverbs 6:6

Go to the Emmet, thou sluggard: consider her ways, and learn to be wise.

Isaiah 5:12

In those companies are harps and lutes, tabrets and pipes, and wine. But they regard not the work of the LORD, and consider not the operation of his hands.

Isaiah 27:11

Their harvest shall be burnt; their wives, which were their beauty when they came forth, shall be defiled. For it is a people without understanding, and therefore he that created them, shall not favour them; and he that made them, shall not be merciful to them.

Jeremiah 4:22

"Nevertheless this shall come upon them because my people is become foolish, and hath utterly no understanding. They are the children of foolishness, and without any discretion. To do evil, they have wit enough: but to do well, they have no wisdom."

Jeremiah 9:3-6

They bend their tongues like bows, to shoot out lies: As for the truth, they may nothing away with all in the world. For they go from one wickedness to another, and hold nothing of me, sayeth the LORD.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Jeremiah 10:14

His wisdom maketh all men fools. And confounded be all casters of images, for that they cast is but a vain thing, and hath no life.

Matthew 13:13-15

Therefore speak I to them in similitudes: For though they see, they see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither understand.

Matthew 13:19

Whosoever heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, there cometh the evil man, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. And this is he which was sown by the wayside.

Romans 1:28

And as it seemed not good unto them to be a known of God, even so God delivered them up unto a lewd mind, that they should do those things which were not comely,

2 Peter 3:5

This they know not - and that willingly: how that the heavens a great while ago were, and the earth that was in the water appeared up out of the water by the word of God:

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