Jeremiah 9:12
New King James Version
12 (A)Who is the wise man who may understand this? And who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord has spoken, that he may declare it? Why does the land perish and burn up like a wilderness, so that no one can pass through?
Read full chapter
Hosea 14:9
New King James Version
9 Who is wise?
Let him understand these things.
Who is prudent?
Let him know them.
For (A)the ways of the Lord are right;
The righteous walk in them,
But transgressors stumble in them.
Psalm 107:43
New King James Version
43 (A)Whoever is wise will observe these things,
And they will understand the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Psalm 107:34
New King James Version
Footnotes
- Psalm 107:34 Lit. a salty waste
Deuteronomy 32:29
New King James Version
29 (A)Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would consider their (B)latter end!
Revelation 1:3
New King James Version
3 (A)Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for (B)the time is near.
Read full chapter
Matthew 24:15
New King James Version
The Great Tribulation(A)
15 (B)“Therefore when you see the (C)‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (D)(whoever reads, let him understand),
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 22:25-31
New King James Version
25 (A)The conspiracy of her [a]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they (B)have devoured [b]people; (C)they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests have [c]violated My law and (E)profaned My holy things; they have not (F)distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her (G)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [d]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (H)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (I)seeing false visions, and divining (J)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully (K)oppress the stranger. 30 (L)So I sought for a man among them who would (M)make a wall, and (N)stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have (O)poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed (P)their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Ezekiel 22:25 So with MT, Vg.; LXX princes; Tg. scribes
- Ezekiel 22:25 Lit. souls
- Ezekiel 22:26 Lit. done violence to
- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Ezekiel 14:23
New King James Version
23 And they will comfort you, when you see their ways and their doings; and you shall know that I have done nothing (A)without cause that I have done in it,” says the Lord God.
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 22:8-9
New King James Version
8 And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, (A)‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ 9 Then they will answer, (B)‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”
Read full chapter
Jeremiah 16:10-13
New King James Version
10 “And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, (A)‘Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’ 11 then you shall say to them, (B)‘Because your fathers have forsaken Me,’ says the Lord; ‘they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law. 12 And you have done (C)worse than your fathers, for behold, (D)each one [a]follows the dictates of his own evil heart, so that no one listens to Me. 13 (E)Therefore I will cast you out of this land (F)into a land that you do not know, neither you nor your fathers; and there you shall serve other gods day and night, where I will not show you favor.’
Read full chapterFootnotes
- Jeremiah 16:12 walks after the stubbornness or imagination
Jeremiah 5:19-20
New King James Version
19 And it will be when you say, (A)‘Why does the Lord our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have (B)forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so (C)you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.’
20 “Declare this in the house of Jacob
And proclaim it in Judah, saying,
1 Kings 9:8-9
New King James Version
8 And as for (A)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (B)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore the Lord has brought all this (C)calamity on them.’ ”
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 29:22-28
New King James Version
22 so that the coming generation of your children who rise up after you, and the foreigner who comes from a far land, would say, when they (A)see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses which the Lord has laid on it:
23 ‘The whole land is brimstone, (B)salt, and burning; it is not sown, nor does it bear, nor does any grass grow there, (C)like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and His wrath.’ 24 All nations would say, (D)‘Why has the Lord done so to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?’ 25 Then people would say: ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt; 26 for they went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they did not know and that He had not given to them. 27 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, (E)to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. 28 And the Lord (F)uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
Read full chapterScripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Bible Gateway Recommends
