Jeremiah 5:4 Cross References
Jeremiah 5:4
4: Then I said, "But what can we expect from the poor and ignorant? They don't know the ways of the LORD. They don't understand what God expects of them.
Jeremiah 8:7
- The stork knows the time of her migration, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane. They all return at the proper time each year. But not my people! They do not know what the LORD requires of them.
Hosea 4:6
- My people are being destroyed because they don't know me. It is all your fault, you priests, for you yourselves refuse to know me. Now I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
Isaiah 28:9
- They say, "Who does the LORD think we are? Why does he speak to us like this? Are we little children, barely old enough to talk?
- He tells us everything over and over again, a line at a time, in very simple words! "
- Since they refuse to listen, God will speak to them through foreign oppressors who speak an unknown language!
- God's people could have rest in their own land if they would only obey him, but they will not listen.
- So the LORD will spell out his message for them again, repeating it over and over, a line at a time, in very simple words. Yet they will stumble over this simple, straightforward message. They will be injured, trapped, and captured.
Matthew 11:5
- the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is being preached to the poor.
Isaiah 27:11
- The people are like the dead branches of a tree, broken off and used for kindling beneath the cooking pots. Israel is a foolish and stupid nation, for its people have turned away from God. Therefore, the one who made them will show them no pity or mercy.
John 7:48
- "Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?
- These ignorant crowds do, but what do they know about it? A curse on them anyway!"
Jeremiah 4:22
- "My people are foolish and do not know me," says the LORD. "They are senseless children who have no understanding. They are clever enough at doing wrong, but they have no talent at all for doing right!"
Jeremiah 7:8
- " `Do you think that because the Temple is here you will never suffer? Don't fool yourselves!