Isaiah 6:10

Modern English Version

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn and be healed.”

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their heart is insensitive, like fat, but I delight in Your law.

Psalm 17:10

They close their hard hearts; with their mouths they speak proudly.

Psalm 69:23

Let their eyes be darkened so they do not see, and make their loins tremble continually.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.

Exodus 11:10

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

Exodus 14:17

As for Me, surely, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, so that they shall follow them, and I will be honored through Pharaoh, through all his army, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Exodus 7:3

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

Proverbs 16:30

He winks his eyes to plot perverse things; pursing his lips, he brings evil to pass.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Isaiah 19:22

The Lord shall strike Egypt. He shall strike and heal it. Then they shall return to the Lord, and He shall be entreated by them and shall heal them.

Isaiah 28:13

So the word of the Lord will be to them, “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little,” that they might go and fall backward, be broken, snared, and taken captive.

Isaiah 29:10

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

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will once again do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hidden.

Isaiah 29:9

Be delayed and wait, blind yourselves and be blind. They are drunk, but not with wine. They stagger, but not with strong drink.

Isaiah 44:18

They have not known nor understood; for He has shut their eyes so that they cannot see, and their hearts so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 63:17

O  Lord, why have You made us to err from Your ways and hardened our heart from fearing You? Return for Your servants’ sake, the tribes of Your inheritance.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is more deceitful than all things and desperately wicked; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this now, O foolish people and without understanding, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear? Behold, their ears are closed, and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them; they have no delight in it.

Lamentations 3:65

Give them hardness of heart; may Your curse be upon them!

Zechariah 11:15

Then the Lord said to me: Take for yourself again the vessels carried by a foolish shepherd.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears so that they should not hear.

Matthew 13:15

for this people’s heart has grown dull. Their ears have become hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts, and turn, and I should heal them.’

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes and perceive with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.”

Acts 28:27

for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Acts 3:19

Therefore repent and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

2 Corinthians 2:16

To the one we are the fragrance of death, which brings death, and to the other the fragrance of life, which brings life. Who is sufficient for these things?

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, so that He might deliver him into your hand as he is to this day.

Deuteronomy 29:3

the great temptations which your eyes have seen, those signs and great wonders.

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten, and filled themselves, and become fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and provoke Me, and break My covenant.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, you grew thick; you are covered with fat. Then he forsook God who made him, and devalued the rock of his salvation.