Isaiah 6:9

And He said: 'Go, and tell this people: hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.

In Context

8And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I said: 'Here am I; send me.'

10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they, seeing with their eyes, and hearing with their ears, and understanding with their heart, return, and be healed.'

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:13And so the word of the LORD is unto them precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever.

Isaiah 43:8The blind people that have eyes shall be brought forth, and the deaf that have ears.

Jeremiah 15:1Then said the LORD unto me: 'Though Moses and Samuel stood before Me, yet My mind could not be toward this people; cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 6:6-9

Isaiah's Heavenly Vision. ( b. c. 758.) 5 Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord,… Read the whole commentary →

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