Isaiah 6:9

Easy To Read Version

Then the Lord said, “Go and tell this to the people: ‘Listen closely, but don’t understand! Look closely, but don’t learn!’

Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

Evil people don’t understand fairness. But people who love the Lord understand it.

Isaiah 28:13

So the words from God were like a foreign language: {\cf2\super [257]}

Isaiah 29:10

The Lord will make you sleepy.\par The Lord will close your eyes.\par (The prophets are your eyes.)\par The Lord will cover your heads.\par (The prophets are your heads.)\par

Isaiah 29:13

My Master says, “These people say they love me. They show honor to me with words from their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.

Isaiah 29:14

So I will continue to amaze these people by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Their wise men will not be able to understand.”

Isaiah 42:20

My servant sees what he should do,\par but he does not obey me.\par He can hear with his ears,\par but he refuses to listen to me.”\par

Isaiah 43:8

\{God says,\}“Bring out the people that have eyes but are blind. Bring out the people that have ears but are deaf. {\cf2\super [385]}

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this message.\par You foolish people have no sense:\par ‘You have eyes, but you don’t see!\par You have ears, but you don’t listen!’\par

Ezekiel 12:2

“Son of man, {\cf2\super [102]} you live among rebellious people—they always turn against me. They have eyes to see \{the things I have done for them\}. But they don’t see those things. They have ears to hear \{the things I told them to do\}. But they don’t hear my commands. Why? Because they are a rebellious people.

Hosea 1:9

Then \{the Lord\} said, “Name him Lo-Ammi. {\cf2\super [8]} Why? Because you are not my people. I am not your God.”

Mark 4:12

I do this so that:

Luke 8:10

Jesus said, “You have been chosen to know the secrets of the kingdom of God. But I use stories to speak to other people. I do this so that:

John 12:40

“God made the people blind.\par God closed their minds.\par God did this so that they will not\par see with their eyes\par and understand with their minds.\par God did this so that they would not turn and be healed.”\par \i (Isaiah 6:10)\i0 \par

Romans 11:8

Like it is written \{in the Scriptures {\cf2\super [122]} \}:

Deuteronomy 29:4

But even today you still don’t understand what happened. The Lord has not let you really understand what you saw and heard.