Isaiah 27:11
When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For they have no understanding (discernment). Their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
Isaiah 1:3
The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!
Isaiah 43:1
Jehovah created Jacob and formed Israel. Jehovah says: Do not be afraid for I have reclaimed you. I have called you by my name. You are mine.
Isaiah 43:7
Bring everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.'
Isaiah 44:24
I am Jehovah, your savior. I am the one who created you. I am Jehovah, the Creator of all things. I alone stretched out the heavens! No one helped me when I made the earth (I was by myself) (Who was with me?).
Jeremiah 8:7
Even storks know when it is time to return. Mourning doves, swallows (swifts), and cranes know when it is time to migrate. But my people do not know that I, Jehovah, am urging them to return.
Genesis 6:6-7
Jehovah was grieved that he had made man on the earth. His heart was grieved with pain.
Deuteronomy 4:6
Carefully obey the laws. For this will show your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations. They will hear all these statutes and say: 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deuteronomy 32:18-25
You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.
Deuteronomy 32:28-29
My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand.
2 Chronicles 36:16-17
They mocked God's messengers. They despised his words, and made fun of his prophets until Jehovah became angry with his people. He could no longer heal them.
Psalm 80:15-16
Take care of what your right hand planted, the son you strengthened for yourself.
Psalm 106:40
Jehovah burned with anger against his own people. He was disgusted with those who belonged to him.
Isaiah 9:17
That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).
Isaiah 44:2
This is what Jehovah says, the one who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: 'Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 44:18-21
They do not know or understand anything. Their eyes are plastered shut and cannot see. Their minds are closed and therefore they cannot understand.
Jeremiah 4:22
My people are fools. They do not know me. They are stupid people. They do not understand. They are experts in doing wrong, and they do not know how to do good.
Jeremiah 5:4-5
I thought: These are only the poor and ignorant. They are foolish. They do not know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do.
Jeremiah 5:21-22
Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.'
Ezekiel 9:10
But (my eye will not feel sorry) I will not have compassion or feel sorry. I will do to them what they have done to others.
Ezekiel 15:2-8
Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any wood of a branch among the trees of the forest?
Ezekiel 20:47
Tell the forest in the Negev: 'Listen to the word of Jehovah. This is what the Lord Jehovah says: I am about to set fire to you to destroy all your green trees and all your dry trees. The blazing fire will not be put out. It will burn the whole land from the south to the north.
Hosea 4:6
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you! You will not be a priest to me since you have forgotten the Law of your God. Therefore, I will forget your children.
Matthew 3:10
The ax is ready to cut down the trees at the roots. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
Matthew 13:15
The heart of this people is callous and dull. Their ears are plugged. They cannot hear. They closed their eyes and cannot see. They cannot see nor hear nor understand with their heart. They should turn around and I would heal them.'
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand, the evil one takes away that which was sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.
John 15:6
If a man does not remain with me, he is removed as a branch, and withers. They gather them and throw them into the fire where they are burned (destroyed) (consumed).
Romans 1:28
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge, so God gave them over to a reprobate (depraved) mind, to do things that are not fitting.
Romans 1:31
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
2 Thessalonians 1:8-9
They will render vengeance to those who do not know God, and to those who do not obey the good news of our Lord Jesus.
James 2:13
For judgment is without mercy to him who shows no mercy. And mercy triumphs over judgment.