Isaiah 44:18

Idolatry Is Ridiculous

¹⁷ the residue of it he turns into god, into his graven image; he humbles himself before it and worships it and prays unto it and says, Deliver me; for thou art my god. ¹⁸ They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend. ¹⁹ He does not return to his right mind; he does not have knowledge nor intelligence to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; I have also baked bread upon the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? Do I have to humble myself before the trunk of a tree?

Have No Knowledge

No

Psalm 81:12

So I gave them up unto the hardness of their heart, and they walked in their own counsels.

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has extended upon you the spirit of deep sleep and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, he has covered the seers with sleep.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is carnal in his knowledge: let every founder be ashamed of his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no spirit in them.

Psalm 92:6

A carnal man does not know, neither does a fool understand this:

Proverbs 2:5-9

then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand judgment, but those that seek the LORD understand all things.

Isaiah 1:3

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

Isaiah 6:9-10

Then he said, Go and tell this people, Hear indeed, but do not understand; and see indeed, but do not perceive.

Isaiah 44:9

Those that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and that which is most precious to them is useful for nothing; and they are their own witnesses that they do not see, nor understand; therefore, they shall be ashamed.

Isaiah 44:20

The ashes feed him; his deceived heart inclines him, that he not deliver his soul and say, Is not the lie at my right hand?

Isaiah 45:20

Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, all ye that are escaped of the Gentiles. They have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image and pray unto the god that does not save.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him and set him in his place. There he is; he does not move from his place; they cry unto him, and neither does he answer, nor save from the tribulation.

Isaiah 56:11

And these anxious dogs are insatiable, and even the shepherds did not know enough to understand: they all look to their own ways, each one for his gain, from his quarter.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear now this, O foolish people and without heart, who have eyes and do not see; who have ears, and do not hear:

Daniel 12:10

Many shall be purified and made white and purged, but the wicked shall get worse; and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise that he might understand this? and prudent that he might know this? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the rebellious shall fall therein.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 13:14-15

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive;

John 5:44

How can ye believe, who take glory one from another, and seek not the glory that comes only from God?

John 8:43

Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.

John 12:39-40

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

Acts 14:16

who in generations past suffered all the Gentiles to walk in their own ways.

Romans 1:21-23

because having known God, they did not glorify him as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Romans 1:28

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a perverse understanding, to do those things which are not convenient,

Romans 11:8-10

(according as it is written, God has given them the spirit of anguish, eyes with which they do not see and ears with which they do not hear) unto this day.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to those that are lost,

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

that wicked one, who shall come by the working of Satan with great power and signs and lying miracles,

2 Peter 2:14

having their eyes full of adultery, and not knowing how to cease from sin, baiting unstable souls, having their heart exercised in covetous practices; cursed sons,