Isaiah 1:3

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as it is today.

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

For with you is the spring of life. In your light we will see light.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

God brings them out of Egypt. He has as it were the strength of the wild ox.

For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

For he has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge, nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

He brought me back to the door of the house; and behold, waters flowed out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the front of the house faced toward the east. The waters came down from underneath, from the right side of the house, on the south of the altar.

Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

By faith, we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.

God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”

God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;” and it was so.

Majesty belongs to the firstborn of his herd. His horns are the horns of the wild ox. With them he will push all the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim. They are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods. Therefore I will save you no more.

Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

Now for a long time Israel was without the true God, without a teaching priest, and without law.

Because they don’t respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

By Yahweh’s word, the heavens were made: all their army by the breath of his mouth.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness and struck him. I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.

“Every man has become brutish without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

that you won’t be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherited the promises.

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,

How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

“Will the wild ox be content to serve you? Or will he stay by your feeding trough?

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

For this they willfully forget that there were heavens from of old, and an earth formed out of water and amid water by the word of God,

Know therefore today, and take it to heart, that Yahweh himself is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath. There is no one else.

“But ask the animals, now, and they will teach you; the birds of the sky, and they will tell you.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

For the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird;

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.

You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

The sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to me.” ’

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

They answered Jesus, “We don’t know.” Jesus said to them, “Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

When he had come, immediately he came to him, and said, “Rabbi! Rabbi!” and kissed him.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.