'Understanding' in the Bible

“Then [in the final time] I will give you [spiritual] shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and [true] understanding.

“It shall come about in that day,” says the Lord, “that the heart and courage of the king will fail (be paralyzed), and also the heart of the princes; the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded and horrified.”

“For My people are stupid and foolish,” [says the Lord to Jeremiah];“They do not know Me;They are foolish childrenAnd have no understanding.They are shrewd [enough] to do evil,But they do not know [how] to do good.”

Then I said, “[Surely] these are only the poor (uneducated);They are [sinfully] foolish and have no [spiritual] understanding,For they do not know the way of the LordOr the ordinance of their God [and the requirements of His just and righteous law].

‘Now hear this, O foolish people without heart,Who have eyes but do not see,Who have ears but do not hear.

God made the earth by His power;He established the world by His wisdomAnd by His understanding and skill He has stretched out the heavens.

He made the earth by His power;He established the world by His wisdomAnd stretched out the heavens by His understanding.