Isaiah 6:9
1599 Geneva Bible
9 And he said, Go, and say unto this people, [a]Ye shall hear indeed, but ye shall not understand: ye shall plainly see, and not perceive.
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- Isaiah 6:9 Whereby is declared that for the malice of man God will not immediately take away his word, but he will cause it to be preached to their condemnation, when as they will not learn thereby to obey his will, and be saved: hereby he exhorteth the ministers to do their duty, and answereth to the wicked murmurers, that through their own malice their heart is hardened, Matt. 13:14; Acts 28:26; Rom. 11:8.
Matthew 13:14
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14 So in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which prophecy saith, (A)By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.
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Acts 28:27
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27 For the heart of this people is waxed fat, and their ears are dull of hearing, and with their eyes have they [a]winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and should return that I might heal them.
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- Acts 28:27 They made as though they saw not that which they saw against their wills: yea they did see, but they would not see.
Romans 11:8
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8 [a]According as it is written, (A)God hath given them the spirit of [b]slumber: eyes that they [c]should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.
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- Romans 11:8 And yet this hardness of heart cometh not but by God’s just decree and judgment, and yet without fault, whom as he so punisheth the unthankful by taking from them all sense and perseverance and by doubling their darkness, that the benefits of God which are offered unto them, do redound to their just destruction.
- Romans 11:8 A very dead sleep which taketh away all sense.
- Romans 11:8 That is, eyes unjust to see.
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