KJV King James Version
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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Isaiah 1:3
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”
WEB World English Bible
The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”
ASV American Standard Version
The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
An ox hath known its owner, And an ass the crib of its master, Israel hath not known, My people hath not understood.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 1
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
יָדַ֥עH3045 · ya.dato knowשׁוֹר֙H7794 · shorcattleקֹנֵ֔הוּH7069 · qa.nahto buyוַחֲמ֖וֹרH2543 · cha.mordonkeyאֵב֣וּסH18 · e.vuscribבְּעָלָ֑יוH1167 · ba.almasterיִשְׂרָאֵל֙H3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotיָדַ֔עH3045 · ya.dato knowעַמִּ֖יH5971 · ampeopleלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotהִתְבּוֹנָֽן׃H995 · binto understand
Cross-references
Jeremiah 8:7Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.Jeremiah 4:22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.Isaiah 44:18They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; [and] their hearts, that they cannot understand.Isaiah 5:12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.Matthew 13:13-15Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.Psalm 94:8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?Romans 1:28And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, [and] set them on fire: for it [is] a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.2 Peter 3:5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:Deuteronomy 32:28-29For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.Proverbs 6:6Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:Jeremiah 9:3-6And they bend their tongues [like] their bow [for] lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.Jeremiah 10:14Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.Matthew 13:19When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth [it] not, then cometh the wicked [one], and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.
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