Isaiah 63:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ O Lord, why have You made us [able] to err from Your ways and hardened our hearts to [reverential] fear of You? Return [to bless us] for Your servants' sake, the tribes of Your heritage.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants’ sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Why do you lead us astray, LORD, from your ways? Why do you harden our heart so we don’t fear you? Return for the sake of your servants the tribes that are your heritage!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Why have you allowed us to stray from your ways, O Lord? Why have you hardened our heart, so that we do not fear you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.

Isaiah 63:17 Cross References

Isaiah 6:10

Make the mind of this people dull, and stop their ears, and shut their eyes, so that they may not look with their eyes and listen with their ears and comprehend with their minds and turn and be healed.”

Joshua 11:20

For it was the Lord’s doing to harden their hearts so that they would come against Israel in battle, in order that they might be utterly destroyed and might receive no mercy but be exterminated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 2:30

But King Sihon of Heshbon was not willing to let us pass through, for the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made his heart defiant in order to hand him over to you, as he has now done.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.”

Psalm 90:13

Turn, O Lord! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Numbers 10:36

And whenever it came to rest, he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”

Zechariah 1:12

Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will you withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which you have been angry these seventy years?”

Psalm 141:4

Do not turn my heart to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with those who work iniquity; do not let me eat of their delicacies.

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart to your decrees and not to selfish gain.

Psalm 119:10

With my whole heart I seek you; do not let me stray from your commandments.

Psalm 80:14

Turn again, O God of hosts; look down from heaven and see; have regard for this vine,

Exodus 4:21

And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put in your power, but I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go.

Exodus 11:10

Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

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 30:28

his breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck— to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads them astray.

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones; he has made my paths crooked.

Ezekiel 20:26

I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.

Isaiah 19:25

whom the Lord of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people and Assyria the work of my hands and Israel my heritage.”