But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
- BSB Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- NKJV Yet the Lord has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.
- NASB Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
- NLT But to this day the Lord has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!
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- Isa 6:9–10He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
- Eph 4:18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
- Prov 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
- John 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word.
- Matt 13:11–15He answered them, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
- Isa 63:17O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.
- Rom 11:7–10What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
- 2 Cor 3:15But to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart.
- Ezek 36:26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Jas 1:13–17Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- John 12:38–40that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
- Acts 28:26–27saying, ‘Go to this people, and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.
- 2 Th 2:10–12and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
- Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
- 2 Tim 2:25in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
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