Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
The Counsels and purposes of God » The wicked » Understand not
They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.
Dullness » General examples of
without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, and unmerciful.
Wicked people do not know or understand anything. As they walk around in the dark, all the foundations of the earth shake.
They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.
I speak to them in illustrations (stories) (parables) (allegories), because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear. They just do not understand.
These people have closed their mind and are hard of hearing. They have shut their eyes so that their eyes never see. Their ears never hear. Their minds never understand. They never turn to me for healing.'
They are constantly learning, and never able to grasp the knowledge of the truth.
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!
They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.
Verse Concepts
Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.
They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.
They do not know the way of peace. There is no justice on their highways. They made their paths crooked. Those who walk on them will never know peace.
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.
They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!
They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart.
Verse Concepts
Spiritual DeathDarkness, As A Symbol Of SinFall Of Man, Consequences OfCommunicationGod, Revelation OfHardness Of HeartHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLonelinessReconciliation, Of The World To GodSalvation, Necessity And Basis OfStubbornness, Consequences OfUnbelief, Nature And Effects OfVeilsApathyCharacter Of WickedNations DescribedIgnorance Towards God, Leads ToInsensibilityEstrangement
Live as children of obedience. Do not fashion yourself according to your former lusts, for you were ignorant at that time.
Those who store up violence and robbery in their dwellings do not know how to do what is right, declared Jehovah.
They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.
They do not know the way of peace. There is no justice on their highways. They made their paths crooked. Those who walk on them will never know peace.
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.
They are ignorant of God's righteousness. They seek to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted to the righteousness of God.
Threshing » Illustrative » (gathering the sheaves for,) of preparing the enemies of the church for judgments
They do not know Jehovah's thoughts. Neither do they understand his counsel. He has gathered them like the sheaves of cut grain to the threshing floor.