4 Then I said, "They are just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law* of their God.
Jeremiah 5:4 Cross References - LEB
Isaiah 27:11
11 ⌊When its branches are dry⌋,* they are broken; women are coming and setting light to it.
For it is not a people of understanding;
therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.
For it is not a people of understanding;
therefore his maker will not have compassion on him, and his creator will not show him favor.
Isaiah 28:9-13
9 To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from milk, those taken from the breast?
10 For it is blah-blah upon blah-blah, blah-blah upon blah-blah, gah-gah upon gah-gah, gah-gah upon gah-gah,* a little here, a little there.
11 For he will speak with ⌊stammering⌋* and another tongue to this people,
12 to whom he has said,
"This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet* they were not willing to hear. 13 And to them the word of Yahweh will be
blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah,* a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured.
"This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose"; yet* they were not willing to hear. 13 And to them the word of Yahweh will be
blah-blah upon blah-blah blah-blah upon blah-blah gah-gah upon gah-gah gah-gah upon gah-gah,* a little here, a little there, so that they may go and stumble backward and be broken and ensnared and captured.
Jeremiah 4:22
22 "For my people are foolish, they have not known me. They are foolish children, and they do not have insight. They are skillful at doing evil, and they do not know how to do good."
Jeremiah 7:8
8 Look, you are relying for yourselves on ⌊deceitful words⌋* without benefiting.
Jeremiah 8:7
7 Even the stork in heaven knows its appointed time, and the turtledove, and the swallow, and the song bird, they observe the time of their coming. But my people do not know the ordinance* of Yahweh.
Hosea 4:6
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me.* And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.*
Matthew 11:5
5 the blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and the poor have good news announced to them.*