Isaiah 44:18

Idolatry Is Ridiculous

¹⁷ But the rest of the wood they make into gods, carved statues. They bow to them and worship them. They pray to them and say: Rescue us, because you are our gods. 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 No one stops to think. No one has enough knowledge or understanding to say: I burned half of the wood in the fire. I also baked bread over its coals. I roasted meat and ate it. Now I am making the rest of the wood into a disgusting thing and bowing to a block of wood.

Have No Knowledge

No

Psalm 81:12

Therefore I gave them over to their stubborn hearts. They walked in their own counsel.

Isaiah 29:10

Jehovah has made you drowsy. He shut your eyes in a deep sleep you prophets and visionaries. He overwhelmed your leaders.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!

Jeremiah 10:14

Every man is stupid lacking knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. His molten images are deceitful. There is no breath in them.

Psalm 92:6

A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand.

Proverbs 2:5-9

If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!

Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice. Those who seek Jehovah understand all things.

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 6:9-10

He said: Go and tell this people: 'Hear constantly but do not understand. See constantly but do not perceive.'

Isaiah 44:9

All who make idols are nothing. The things they treasure are worthless. Those who would speak up for them are blind. They are shamefully ignorant.

Isaiah 44:20

They eat ashes because they are deceived. Their own misguided minds lead them astray. They cannot rescue themselves or ask themselves: Is what I hold in my right hand a false god?

Isaiah 45:20

Come here, you refugees from the nations. Ignorant people carry wooden idols and pray to gods that cannot save anyone.

Isaiah 46:7-8

They lift it to their shoulders and carry it. They set it up in its place and there it stands. From that spot it cannot move. Though one cries out to it, it does not answer. It cannot save him from his troubles!

Isaiah 56:11

They are dogs with mighty appetites. They never have enough! They are shepherds who lack understanding. They all turn to their own way and each one seeks dishonest (unjust) gain.

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, you stupid and senseless people! You have eyes, but you cannot see. You have ears, but you cannot hear.'

Daniel 12:10

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined. The wicked will do wickedly and none of the wicked will understand. Those who are wise will understand!

Hosea 14:9

Let the wise understand these things. Let the discerning know them. For the ways of Jehovah are right. And the righteous will walk in them. But transgressors will stumble in them.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 13:14-15

The prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled. 'By hearing, you shall hear, and shall in no way understand. By seeing you shall see, and shall in no way perceive.

John 5:44

How can you believe? You seek praise and glory from one another? Why do you not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I say? Can you not hear me?

John 12:39-40

Isaiah revealed the reason they could not believe:

Acts 14:16

In the past he let all nations to walk in their own ways.

Romans 1:21-23

for when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. They did not thank him and were vain in their reasoning, for their foolish hearts were darkened.

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 11:8-10

It is written, God has given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear to this very day. (Deuteronomy 29:4)

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

If our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who perish.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

The evil (lawless) one will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false signs and wonders.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.