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For my people are foolish, they know don`t me; they are foolish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
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The Root of All Folly
Commentators agree that the core problem described in this verse is a willful ignorance of God. God declares His people "foolish" precisely because "they know me not." John Calvin notes this ignorance is inexcusable, as God had clearly revealed Himself. True wisdom, therefore, begins with knowing God personally and experimentally, not just having a religious affiliation.
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Jeremiah
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19th Century
Anglican
For my people is foolish. —Jehovah answers the prophet’s question. The misery comes to punish the folly …
Baptist
As if they had gone back to chaos – to the primeval darkness – to the first disorder before God began to create.
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again teaches us that the cause of these evils arose from the people themselves and was to be found in them, so that they could not tra…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For my people is foolish This, as Kimchi says, is the answer of the Lord to the prophet; for not the prophet says th…
Presbyterian
The prophet had no pleasure in delivering messages of wrath. He is shown in a vision the whole land in confusion.
Compared with what it was,…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Here, he predicts the destruction of the land.
First, he predicts the destruction itself.
Second, he desc…
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