Quotes About Understanding

When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ëWhy has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?í

“Therefore behold, I will inform them, and this time I will make them know My power and My might; then they will know that My name is the LORD.

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

But which of them has stood in the council of the LORD to see and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and obeyed it?

The anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this clearly.

Nevertheless, listen now to this message I am speaking in your hearing and in the hearing of all the people.

The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until He has fully accomplished the purposes of His heart. In the days to come you will understand this.

Call to Me, and I will answer and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.

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

“Son of man,” He said to me, “eat and fill your stomach with this scroll I am giving you.” So I ate, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth.

For you are not being sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or difficult language, but to the house of Israel—

not to the many peoples of unfamiliar speech and difficult language whose words you cannot understand. Surely if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

“Son of man,” He added, “listen carefully to all the words I speak to you, and take them to heart.

“Son of man,” He told me, “dig through the wall.” So I dug through the wall and discovered a doorway.

“Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.

Therefore, son of man, pack your bags for exile. In broad daylight, set out from your place and go to another as they watch. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house.

“Son of man, hasnít the rebellious house of Israel asked you, ëWhat are you doing?í

“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ëThe vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.í

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,í declares the Lord GOD.”

“Son of man, pose a riddle; speak a parable to the house of Israel

So I asked them: ëWhat is this high place to which you go?í (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ëIs he not just telling parables?í”

Then the people asked me, “Wonít you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”