Quotes About Understanding

“Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.

To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD.

And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Whom is He trying to teach? To whom is He explaining His message? To infants just weaned from milk? To babies removed from the breast?

For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

Indeed, with mocking lips and foreign tongues, He will speak to this people

Then the word of the LORD to them will become: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there,” so that they will go stumbling backward and will be injured, ensnared, and captured.

As often as it passes through, it will carry you away; it will sweep through morning after morning, by day and by night.” The understanding of this message will bring sheer terror.

Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.

This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.

And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”

Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”

Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”

You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?

On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

Then the wayward in spirit will come to understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.”

Then the eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen.

The mind of the rash will know and understand, and the stammering tongue will speak clearly and fluently.

You will no longer see the insolent, a people whose speech is unintelligible, who stammer in a language you cannot understand.