Isaiah 29:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ For the Lord has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep. And He has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, He has covered and muffled.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ The LORD has poured on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has shut your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ For the Lord has mixed for you a spirit of deep sleep. He will close your eyes. He will cover your prophets and leaders, who see visions.

Isaiah 29:10 Cross References

Romans 11:8

as it is written, “God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, nor do they comprehend, for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

1 Samuel 9:9

(Formerly in Israel, anyone who went to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for the one who is now called a prophet was formerly called a seer.)

2 Corinthians 4:4

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing clearly the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Micah 3:6

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without revelation. The sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Ezekiel 14:9

If a prophet is deceived and speaks a word, I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

Psalm 69:23

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually.

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear that was at Saul’s head and the water jar, and they went away. No one saw it or knew it, nor did anyone awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.

Micah 3:1

And I said: Listen, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Should you not know justice?—

Isaiah 29:14

so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first ancestor sinned, and your mediators rebelled against me.

Jeremiah 4:9

On that day, says the Lord, courage shall fail the king and the officials; the priests shall be appalled and the prophets astounded.

Lamentations 4:14

Blindly they wandered through the streets, so defiled with blood that no one was able to touch their garments.

Micah 2:6

“Do not preach”—thus they preach— “one should not preach of such things; disgrace will not overtake us.”