Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish. They do not know me. They are sottish sons, and they have no understanding. They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void, and the heavens, and they had no light.
Cross References
Genesis 39:16And she laid up his garment by her until his master came home.
Deuteronomy 32:28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
2 Samuel 16:21And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to thy father's concubines that he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that thou are abhorred by thy father. Then the hands of all who are with thee will be strong.
Psalms 36:4He devises iniquity upon his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not abhor evil.
Isaiah 1:3The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib, [but] Israel does not know; my people does not consider.
Isaiah 27:11When the boughs of it are withered, they shall be broken off. The women shall come, and set them on fire, for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion upon them, and he who formed them
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 4:20-31
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 620.) 19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. 20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment. 21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet? 22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and… Read the whole commentary →