Isaiah 1:3

Oxen know their owners, and donkeys know who provides food for them, but my Israeli people do not know me; they do not realize that I am the one who takes care of them.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

In Context

2This is what Yahweh says: “All you angels in [APO] heaven and all you people on [APO] earth, listen to me! The people that I caused to exist and took care of [DOU] have rebelled against me.

4Terrible things will happen to that sinful nation, to those people who are guilty of sinning greatly. They are a group of very evil people, who act very unjustly. They have abandoned Yahweh, the holy one of Israel; they have ◄abandoned/turned away from► him.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:28You Israelis are a nation of people who do not have any sense. None of you is wise.

Proverbs 6:6You lazy individual, learn something from watching the ants. Become wise from observing what they do.

Isaiah 5:12They have big parties and provide lots of wine. At their parties, there are people playing harps and lyres and tambourines and flutes, but they never think about what Yahweh does or appreciate what he has created.

Isaiah 42:20You see and know what are the right things to do, but you do not do them. You hear what I say to you, but you do not pay attention.”

Jeremiah 4:22Yahweh says, “My people are very foolish! They do not have a relationship with me. They are like [MET] stupid children who do not understand anything. They very cleverly do what is wrong, but they do not know how to do what is good.”

Jeremiah 9:3Yahweh replied to me, “They use their tongues to tell [MET] lies like people shoot arrows with bows. It is because they tell lies that they have become more powerful in this land, and they do not know me.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:3-10

The Degeneracy of Israel; The Sinfulness of Israel; The Sufferings of Israel. ( b. c. 738.) 2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. 4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord , they have provoked the Holy One of… Read the whole commentary →

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