Isaiah 6:10

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Confuse them. Make them unable to understand what they hear and see. If you don’t do this, they might really look with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their minds. Then they might come back to me and be healed!”

Cross References

Matthew 13:15

Yes, the minds of these people are now closed. They have ears, but they don’t listen. They have eyes, but they refuse to see. If their minds were not closed, they might see with their eyes; they might hear with their ears; they might understand with their minds. Then they might turn back to me and be healed.’ Isaiah 6:9-10

Acts 28:27

Yes, the minds of these people are now closed. They have ears, but they don’t listen. They have eyes, but they refuse to see. If their minds were not closed, they might see with their eyes; they might hear with their ears; they might understand with their minds. Then they might turn back to me and be healed.’ Isaiah 6:9-10

Jeremiah 5:21

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

Jeremiah 6:10

Who can I speak to? Who can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed their ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the Lord’s teachings. They don’t want to hear his message.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and refused to do what he wanted. They closed their ears so that they could not hear what God said.

Isaiah 63:17

Lord, why are you pushing us away from you? Why are you making it hard for us to follow you? Come back to us! We are your servants. Come to us and help us! Our tribes belong to you.

Isaiah 29:10

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

Deuteronomy 2:30

“But King Sihon of Heshbon would not let us pass through his country. The Lord your God had made him very stubborn and ready to fight. The Lord did this so that he could help you defeat King Sihon. And today we know that is what happened.

Psalm 17:10

They think only of themselves and brag about what they will do.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun became fat and kicked like a bull. (Yes, you people were fed well and became full and fat.) They left the God who made them! They ran away from the Rock who saved them.

Psalm 119:70

Those people are so stupid that they care for nothing, but I enjoy studying your teachings.

Exodus 14:17

I have made the Egyptians brave, so they will chase you. But I will show you that I am more powerful than Pharaoh and all of his horses and chariots.

Exodus 11:10

That is why Moses and Aaron did all these great miracles in front of Pharaoh. And that is why the Lord made Pharaoh so stubborn that he would not let the Israelites leave his country.

Exodus 10:27

The Lord made Pharaoh stubborn again, so he refused to let them go.

2 Corinthians 2:16

To those who are being lost, this perfume smells like death, and it brings them death. But to those who are being saved, it has the sweet smell of life, and it brings them life. So who is good enough to do this work?

Acts 3:19

So you must change your hearts and lives. Come back to God, and he will forgive your sins.

Isaiah 19:22

The Lord will punish the Egyptians, but then he will heal them, and they will come back to him. The Lord will listen to their prayers and heal them.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make Pharaoh stubborn so that he will not do what you tell him. Then I will do many miracles in Egypt to prove who I am.

John 12:40

“God made the people blind. He closed their minds. He did this so that they would not see with their eyes and understand with their minds. He did it so that they would not turn and be healed.” Isaiah 6:10

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.

Deuteronomy 31:20

I will take them into the land that I promised to give to their ancestors—a land filled with many good things. And they will have all they want to eat. They will have a rich life. But then they will turn to other gods and serve them. They will turn away from me and break my agreement.

Psalm 69:23

Let them go blind and their backs become weak.

Isaiah 29:14

So I will continue to amaze them by doing powerful and amazing things. Their wise men will lose their wisdom. Even the most intelligent among them will not be able to understand.”

Isaiah 44:18

People like that don’t know what they are doing! They don’t understand. It is as if they have mud in their eyes so they cannot see. Their minds cannot understand.

Jeremiah 17:9

“Nothing can hide its evil as well as the human mind. It can be very sick, and no one really understands it.

Lamentations 3:65

Make them stubborn and then curse them.

Zechariah 11:15

Then the Lord said to me, “Now, get the things a foolish shepherd might use.

Deuteronomy 29:3

You saw the great troubles he gave them. You saw the miracles and amazing things he did.

Proverbs 16:30

With a wink of the eye, they plan to trick someone. With a grin, they make plans to hurt their friends.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

There is a time to kill and a time to heal. There is a time to destroy and a time to build.

Isaiah 28:13

So the Lord’s words will be senseless sounds to them: “Saw lasaw saw lasaw. Qaw laqaw qaw laqaw. Ze’er sham ze’er sham.” When the people try to walk, they will fall backwards. They will be defeated, trapped, and captured.

Isaiah 29:9

Be surprised and amazed! You will become drunk, but not from wine. Look and be amazed! You will stumble and fall, but not from beer.