Psalms 94:8

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

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.’ ”

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

God looks down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there are any who understood, who seek after God.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

Therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

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.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.

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

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

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

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

“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.

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.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

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.’

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;

Yahweh examines the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and him who loves violence.

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

But now Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.

everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yes, whom I have made.’ ”

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.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, and he who formed you from the womb says: “I am Yahweh, who makes all things; who alone stretches out the heavens; who spreads out the earth by myself;

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.

For Yahweh says, “Don’t enter into the house of mourning. Don’t go to lament. Don’t bemoan them, for I have taken away my peace from this people,” says Yahweh, “even loving kindness and tender mercies.

You will know that I am Yahweh, when their slain men are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered pleasant aroma to all their idols.

But it was plucked up in fury. It was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and withered. The fire consumed them.

“ ‘ “In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you and you weren’t cleansed, you won’t be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

Let Samaria throw out his calf idol! My anger burns against them! How long will it be until they are capable of purity?

for they hadn’t understood about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

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

The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

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.

“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.”

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

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

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;

Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

The arrogant will not stand in your sight. You hate all workers of iniquity.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on God?

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

I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.

“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

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

You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

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.

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

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.

I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You will not be made clean. How long will it yet be?”

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.

He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”

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

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,