Isaiah 6:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

Psalm 17:10

They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

Psalm 69:23

Let their eyes be blind so that they may not see; let their bodies for ever be shaking.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he would not let them go.

Exodus 11:10

All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 14:17

And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen.

Exodus 7:3

And I will make Pharaoh's heart hard, and my signs and wonders will be increased in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 16:30

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;

Isaiah 19:22

And the Lord will send punishment on Egypt, and will make them well again; and when they come back to the Lord he will give ear to their prayer and take away their disease.

Isaiah 28:13

For this cause the word of the Lord will be to them rule after rule, line after line, here a little, there a little; so that they may go on their way, and falling back may be broken, and taken in the net.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

Isaiah 29:14

For this cause I will again do a strange thing among this people, a thing to be wondered at: and the wisdom of their wise men will come to nothing, and the sense of their guides will no longer be seen.

Isaiah 29:9

Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

Isaiah 44:18

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

Isaiah 63:17

O Lord, why do you send us wandering from your ways, making our hearts hard, so that we have no fear of you? Come back, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is a twisted thing, not to be searched out by man: who is able to have knowledge of it?

Jeremiah 5:21

Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.

Lamentations 3:65

You will let their hearts be covered over with your curse on them.

Zechariah 11:15

And the Lord said to me, Take again the instruments of a foolish keeper of sheep.

Zechariah 7:11

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Matthew 13:15

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

John 12:40

He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.

Acts 28:27

For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.

Acts 3:19

So then, let your hearts be changed and be turned to God, so that your sins may be completely taken away, and times of blessing may come from the Lord;

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.

Deuteronomy 29:3

The great tests which your eyes saw, and the signs and wonders:

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have taken them into the land named in my oath to their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, and they have made themselves full of food and are fat, then they will be turned to other gods and will give them worship, no longer honouring me or keeping my agreement.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.