Isaiah 6:10

New American Bible - revised edition

Make the heart of this people sluggish, dull their ears and close their eyes; Lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and their heart understand, and they turn and be healed.

Cross References

Psalm 119:70

Their hearts are gross and fat; as for me, your law is my delight.

Psalm 17:10

they close their hearts, they fill their mouths with proud roaring.

Psalm 69:23

May their own table be a snare for them, and their communion offerings a trap.

Exodus 10:27

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

Exodus 11:10

Thus, although Moses and Aaron performed all these wonders in Pharaoh’s presence, the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go from his land.

Exodus 14:17

But I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory through Pharaoh and all his army, his chariots and his horsemen.

Exodus 7:3

Yet I will make Pharaoh so headstrong that, despite the many signs and wonders that I work in the land of Egypt,

Proverbs 16:30

Whoever winks an eye plans perversity; whoever purses the lips does evil.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Isaiah 19:22

Although the Lord shall smite Egypt severely, he shall heal them; they shall turn to the Lord and he shall be moved by their entreaty and heal them.

Isaiah 28:13

So for them the word of the Lord shall be: “Command on command, command on command, Rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!” So that when they walk, they shall stumble backward, broken, ensnared, and captured.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 29:14

Therefore I will again deal with this people in surprising and wondrous fashion: The wisdom of the wise shall perish, the prudence of the prudent shall vanish.

Isaiah 29:9

Stupefy yourselves and stay stupid; blind yourselves and stay blind! You who are drunk, but not from wine, who stagger, but not from strong drink!

Isaiah 44:18

They do not know, do not understand; their eyes are too clouded to see, their minds, to perceive.

Isaiah 63:17

Why do you make us wander, Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so that we do not fear you? Return for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.

Jeremiah 17:9

More tortuous than anything is the human heart, beyond remedy; who can understand it?

Jeremiah 5:21

Pay attention to this, you foolish and senseless people, Who have eyes and do not see, who have ears and do not hear.

Jeremiah 6:10

To whom shall I speak? whom shall I warn, and be heard? See! their ears are uncircumcised, they cannot pay attention; See, the word of the Lord has become for them an object of scorn, for which they have no taste.

Lamentations 3:65

Give them hardness of heart; your curse be upon them;

Zechariah 11:15

The Lord said to me: This time take the gear of a foolish shepherd.

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen; they stubbornly turned their backs and stopped their ears so as not to hear.

Matthew 13:15

Gross is the heart of this people, they will hardly hear with their ears, they have closed their eyes, lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.’ The Privilege of Discipleship.

John 12:40

“He blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not see with their eyes and understand with their heart and be converted, and I would heal them.”

Acts 28:27

Gross is the heart of this people; they will not hear with their ears; they have closed their eyes, so they may not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.’

Acts 3:19

Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,

2 Corinthians 2:16

to the latter an odor of death that leads to death, to the former an odor of life that leads to life. Who is qualified for this?

Deuteronomy 2:30

But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his land, because the Lord, your God, made him stubborn in mind and obstinate in heart that he might deliver him into your power, as indeed he has now done.

Deuteronomy 29:3

But the Lord has not given you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear until this day.

Deuteronomy 29:4

I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;

Deuteronomy 31:20

For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey which I promised on oath to their ancestors, and they have eaten and are satisfied and have grown fat, if they turn to other gods and serve them, despising me and breaking my covenant,

Deuteronomy 32:15

So Jacob ate and was satisfied, Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you became fat and gross and gorged. They forsook the God who made them and scorned the Rock of their salvation.