Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Bible References
The wise
Deuteronomy 32:29
If they were wise, they would understand this; they would consider their latter end!
Psalm 107:43
Whoever is wise, and will observe these things, they shall understand the mercies of Jehovah.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.
Matthew 24:15
Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand).
Revelation 1:3
Blessed is the one who reads and hears the Words of this prophecy, and the ones keeping the things written in it, for the time is near.
For
Jeremiah 5:19
And it will be, when you shall say, Why does Jehovah our God do all these things to us? Then You shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
Jeremiah 16:10
And it shall be, when you declare to this people all these words, and they shall say to you, Why has Jehovah pronounced all this great evil against us? Or what is our iniquity, or what is our sin that we have committed against Jehovah our God?
Jeremiah 22:8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say each one to his neighbor, Why has Jehovah done this to this great city?
Deuteronomy 29:22
so that the generation to come of your sons that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say (when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which Jehovah has laid on it)
1 Kings 9:8
As to this house which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be amazed and shall hiss. And they shall say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Ezekiel 14:23
And they shall comfort you when you see their way and their doings. And you shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done in it, says the Lord Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:25
A plot by her prophets is in her midst, like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they multiplied her many widows in her midst.