Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
KJV
Confusi sunt sapientes ; perterriti et capti sunt : verbum enim Domini projecerunt, et sapientia nulla est in eis.
Vulgate
ᾐσχύνθησαν σοφοὶ καὶ ἐπτοήθησαν καὶ ἑάλωσαν, ὅτι τὸν νόμον Κυρίου ἀπεδοκίμασαν· σοφία τίς ἐστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς;
LXX
The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
ASV
הֹבִ֣ישׁוּ חֲכָמִ֔ים חַ֖תּוּ וַ/יִּלָּכֵ֑דוּ הִנֵּ֤ה בִ/דְבַר יְהוָה֙ מָאָ֔סוּ וְ/חָכְמַֽת מֶ֖ה לָ/הֶֽם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 1:18 — For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
- 1Cor 1:19 — For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.
- 2Kgs 17:15 — And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the hea
- Amos 2:4 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, a
- Deut 4:6 — Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understandi
- Deut 4:6 — Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understandi
- Ezek 7:26 — Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
- Isa 8:20 — To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
- Isa 19:11 — Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?
- Jer 6:15 — Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they s
- Jer 6:19 — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
- Jer 6:19 — Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
- Jer 10:21 — For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.
- Job 5:12 — He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
- John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- Matt 7:26 — And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
- Ps 19:7 — The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
- Ps 50:17 — Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.
- Ps 119:98 — Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.