Acts 28:26

Saying, Go to this people and say, In hearing SHIMU SHAMO'A V'AL TAVINU UR'U RA'O V'AL TEDA'U (You will hear and yet by no means understand, and seeing you will see and yet by no means perceive.)

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

In Context

25And so they disagreed with one another. And as they were leaving, Rav Sha'ul said a final dvar. Rightly the Ruach Hakodesh spoke through Yeshayah HaNavi to your Avot,

27HASHMEN LEV HAAM HAZEH V'AZNAV HAKHBED V'ENAV HASHA PEN YIREH V'EINAV UV'AZNAV YISHMA ULEVAVO YAVIN VASHA V'RAFA LO (For the heart of this people has become dull and with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, lest they should see with their eyes, and with their ears may hear and with their heart they may have binah and they may turn and I will heal them). + 28:27 Ps 119:70; Isa 6:9,10; also Isa 53:5

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:4And I have led you arba'im shanim in the midbar; your clothes are not worn out upon you, and thy sandal is not worn out upon thy foot.

Isaiah 6:9And He said, Go, and tell this people: 1 Hear ye indeed, but understand not; 1 and see indeed, but perceive not. 1

Isaiah 29:14Therefore, hineni, I will again do an astonishing work among this people, 1 even a marvellous work and a peleh (wonder); 1 for the chochmah of their chachamim shall perish, 1 and the binah (understanding) of their sages shall vanish. 1

Isaiah 66:4I also will choose their ill-treatments, 1 and will bring their terrors upon them; 1 because when I called, no one did answer; 1 when I spoke, they did not hear; 1 but they did the rah before Mine eyes, 1 and chose that in which I took no pleasure. 1

Ezekiel 3:6Not to amim rabbim of indecipherable language and obscure lashon whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have paid heed unto thee.

Matthew 13:14And in them is fulfilled the nevuah (prophecy) of Yeshayah HaNavi, saying, SHIMU SHAMOA VAL TAVINU UREU RAO VAL TEIDAU (In hearing you will hear and by no means understand, and seeing you will see and by no means perceive).

Matthew Henry on Acts 28:24-30

Paul at Rome. 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening. 24 And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. 25 And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, 26 Saying, Go… Read the whole commentary →

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