Isaiah 29:10

New Century Version

The Lord has made you go into a deep sleep. He has closed your eyes. (The prophets are your eyes.) He has covered your heads. (The seers are your heads.)

Cross References

Psalm 69:23

Let their eyes be closed so they cannot see and their backs be forever weak from troubles.

Isaiah 29:14

So I will continue to amaze these people by doing more and more miracles. Their wise men will lose their wisdom; their wise men will not be able to understand.”

Isaiah 30:10

They tell the seers, “Don’t see any more visions!” They say to the prophets, “Don’t tell us the truth! Say things that will make us feel good; see only good things for us.

Isaiah 43:27

Your first father sinned, and your leaders have turned against me.

Isaiah 44:18

Those people don’t know what they are doing. They don’t understand! It is as if their eyes are covered so they can’t see. Their minds don’t understand.

Jeremiah 4:9

“When this happens,” says the Lord, “the king and officers will lose their courage. The priests will be terribly afraid, and the prophets will be shocked!”

Lamentations 4:14

They wandered in the streets as if they were blind. They were dirty with blood, so no one would touch their clothes.

Ezekiel 14:9

“ ‘But if the prophet is tricked into giving a prophecy, it is because I, the Lord, have tricked that prophet to speak. Then I will use my power against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.

Micah 2:6

The prophets say, “Don’t prophesy to us! Don’t prophesy about these things! Nothing to make us feel bad will happen!”

Micah 3:1

Then I said, “Listen, leaders of the people of Jacob; listen, you rulers of the nation of Israel. You should know how to decide cases fairly,

Micah 3:6

So it will become like night for them, without visions. It will become dark for them, without any way to tell the future. The sun is about to set for the prophets; their day will become dark.

Romans 11:8

As it is written in the Scriptures: “God gave the people a dull mind so they could not understand.” “He closed their eyes so they could not see and their ears so they could not hear. This continues until today.”

2 Corinthians 4:4

The devil who rules this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe. They cannot see the light of the Good News—the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is exactly like God.

1 Samuel 26:12

So David took the spear and water jug that were near Saul’s head, and they left. No one saw them or knew about it or woke up, because the Lord had put them sound asleep.

1 Samuel 9:9

(In the past, if someone in Israel wanted to ask something from God, he would say, “Let’s go to the seer.” We call the person a prophet today, but in the past he was called a seer.)