Bible verse

Isaiah 1:3

The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

Isaiah 1:3 · BSB

Isaiah 1:3 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 1.

1 This is the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

3 The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s manger, but Israel does not know; My people do not understand.”

4 Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.

5 Why do you want more beatings? Why do you keep rebelling? Your head has a massive wound, and your whole heart is afflicted.

6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your head, there is no soundness—only wounds and welts and festering sores neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

7 Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

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Isaiah 1:3 in other translations

KJV

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

ASV

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

ERV

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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