Isaiah 1:3
3The ox aknows its owner,and the donkey its master’s crib,
but Israel does bnot know,
my people do not understand.”
Isaiah 27:11
11When its boughs are dry, they are broken;women come and make a fire of them.
cFor this is a people without discernment;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.
Jeremiah 8:7
7Even the stork in the heavensknows her times,
and dthe turtledove, eswallow, and crane ▼
▼The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain
keep the time of their coming,
gbut my people know not
the rules ▼
▼Or just decrees
of the Lord.Hosea 4:6
6My people are destroyed ifor lack of knowledge;jbecause you have rejected knowledge,
I reject you kfrom being a priest to me.
And since you have forgotten the law of your God,
lI also will forget your children.
Matthew 23:16-27
16“Woe to myou, nblind guides, who say, o‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or pthe temple that has made the gold sacred? 18And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by qthe gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or rthe altar that makes the gift sacred? 20So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by shim who dwells in it. 22And whoever swears by theaven swears by uthe throne of God and by vhim who sits upon it.23 w“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For xyou tithe mint and dill and ycumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: zjustice and mercy and faithfulness. aaThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing aba camel!
25 ac“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For adyou clean the outside of aethe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of afgreed and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of agthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
27 ah“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like aiwhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and ajall uncleanness.
Luke 19:44
44 akand tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And althey will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know amthe time of your anvisitation.”John 3:19-20
19 aoAnd this is the judgment: apthe light has come into the world, and aqpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because artheir works were evil. 20 asFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, atlest his works should be exposed.
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