The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God.

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were {any} that did understand, that did seek God.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. {destroyed: Heb. cut off}

Because the carnal mind {is} enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. {the carnal...: Gr. the minding of the flesh}

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

I am sought of {them that} asked not {for me}; I am found of {them that} sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation {that} was not called by my name.

For 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.

Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because {they are} many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the LORD!

And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, {even} in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

When 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.

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For the people turneth not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.

The fear of the LORD {is} the beginning of knowledge: {but} fools despise wisdom and instruction. {the beginning: or, the principal part}

When 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.

What {is} the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

And 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; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?

Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people {as} they eat bread: they have not called upon God.

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, {and} seek God.

For 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.

Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: {without natural...: or unsociable}

Salvation {is} far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and {ye} fools, when will ye be wise?

And them that are turned back from the LORD; and {those} that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people {that} doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not} {fall: or, be punished}

O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.

Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Why do ye not understand my speech? {even} because ye cannot hear my word.