Jeremiah 4:22

Jeremiah chapter 4 · verse 22 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Context

v.21How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?

v.22This passage

v.23I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

2 Samuel 16:21
And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, that he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then will the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
Hosea 5:4
Their doings will not suffer them to turn unto their God; for the spirit of whoredom is within them, and they know not Jehovah.
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
John 16:3
And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Jeremiah 13:23
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Luke 16:8
And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.