Quotes About Understanding

They are created now, and not long ago; you have not heard of them before today. So you cannot claim, ëI already knew them!í

You have never heard; you have never understood; for a long time your ears have not been open. For I knew how deceitful you are; you have been called a rebel from birth.

Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.

Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”

so He will sprinkle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For they will see what they have not been told, and they will understand what they have not heard.

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Cross over to the coasts of Cyprus and take a look; send to Kedar and consider carefully; see if there has ever been anything like this:

Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.”

“For My people are fools; they have not known Me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing evil, but they know not how to do good.”

Behold, I am bringing a distant nation against you, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD. “It is an established nation, an ancient nation, a nation whose language you do not know and whose speech you do not understand.

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Therefore hear, O nations, and learn, O congregations, what will happen to them.

“I have appointed you to examine My people like ore, so you may know and try their ways.

Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush keep their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

How can you say, ëWe are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,í when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a desert, so no one can pass through it?

But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.

Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëEvery wineskin shall be filled with wine.í And when they reply, ëDonít we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?í