Quotes About Wisdom

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.”

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.

Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.

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

Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

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.

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.”

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

They set out to go down to Egypt without asking My advice, to seek shelter under Pharaohís protection and take refuge in Egyptís shade.

But Pharaohís protection will become your shame, and the refuge of Egyptís shade your disgrace.

Go now, write it on a tablet in their presence and inscribe it on a scroll; it will be for the days to come, a witness forever and ever.

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

Yet He too is wise and brings disaster; He does not call back His words. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against the allies of evildoers.

Behold, a king will reign in righteousness, and princes will rule with justice.

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

No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.

For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.

He will be the sure foundation for your times, a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zionís treasure.