Isaiah 6:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

And he said, “Go and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend; keep looking, but do not understand.’

Cross References

Proverbs 28:5

The evil do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Isaiah 28:13

Therefore 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,” in order that they may go and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken.

Isaiah 29:10

For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes (the prophets) and covered your heads (the seers).

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Isaiah 29:14

so I will again do amazing things with this people, shocking and amazing. The wisdom of their wise shall perish, and the discernment of the discerning shall be hidden.

Isaiah 42:20

He sees many things, but he does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

Isaiah 43:8

Bring forth the people who are blind yet have eyes, who are deaf yet have ears!

Jeremiah 5:21

Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

Ezekiel 12:2

Mortal, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear,

Hosea 1:9

Then the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people, and I am not your God.”

Mark 4:12

in order that ‘they may indeed look but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand; so that they may not turn again and be forgiven.’ ”

Luke 8:10

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but to others I speak in parables, so that ‘looking they may not perceive and hearing they may not understand.’

John 12:40

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.”

Romans 11:8

as it is written, “God gave them a sluggish spirit, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

Deuteronomy 29:4

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