Isaiah 6:9

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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

8Also I heard the voice of Adonoi, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us? Then said I, Hineini; send me.

10Make the lev HaAm hazeh stubborn, 1 and make their ears stopped up, 1 their eyes heavy; lest they see with their eyes, 1 and hear with their ears, 1 and understand with their lev. 1 And have a spiritual turnaround conversion, 1 and be healed. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:13But the Devar Hashem was unto them 1 precept upon precept, precept upon precept; 1 line upon line, line upon line; 1 sham a little, and sham a little; 1 that they might go, and fall backward, 1 and be broken, and snared, and taken [captive]. 1

Isaiah 30:8Now go, 1 write it before them on a luach (tablet), 1 and inscribe it on a sefer, 1 that it may be for a yom acharon l'ad ad olam; 1

Isaiah 43:8Bring forth the Am Ivver that have eyes, 1 and the chereshim that have oznayim. 1

Jeremiah 15:1Then said Hashem unto me, Though Moshe and Shmuel stood before Me, yet My Nefesh could not be toward HaAm Hazeh; cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.

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).

Luke 8:10And he said, To you it has been granted to have daas of the razei Malchut Hashem (mysteries of the Kingdom of G-d), but to the others I speak in mashalim, in order that YIRU they may not see and VSHIMU they may not have binah. + 8:10 Isa 6:9

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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