Isaiah 29:10
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10 (A)For the Lord has poured out upon you
a spirit of deep sleep,
and has closed your eyes (the prophets),
and covered your heads (the seers).
Romans 11:8
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8 as it is written,
(A)“God gave them a spirit of stupor,
(B)eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”
Isaiah 44:18
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18 They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
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2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
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9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan (A)with all power and false signs and wonders, 10 and with all wicked deception for (B)those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. 11 Therefore (C)God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe (D)what is false, 12 in order that all may be condemned (E)who did not believe the truth but (F)had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Acts 28:26-27
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26 (A)“‘Go to this people, and say,
(B)“You will indeed hear but never understand,
and you will indeed see but never perceive.”
27 (C)For this people's heart has grown dull,
and with their ears they can barely hear,
and their eyes they have closed;
lest they should see with their eyes
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart
and (D)turn, and I would heal them.’
Isaiah 30:10
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10 (A)who say to (B)the seers, “Do not see,”
and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right;
speak to us (C)smooth things,
prophesy illusions,
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, “Go, and say to this people:
(A)“‘Keep on hearing,[a] but do not understand;
keep on seeing,[b] but do not perceive.’
10 (B)Make the heart of this people (C)dull,[c]
and their ears heavy,
and blind their eyes;
(D)lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:9 Or Hear indeed
- Isaiah 6:9 Or see indeed
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew fat
1 Samuel 9:9
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9 (Formerly in Israel, when a man (A)went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today's “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)
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Jeremiah 26:8-11
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8 And when Jeremiah had finished speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, then (A)the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold of him, saying, “You shall die! 9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be (B)like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, (C)without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.
10 When (D)the officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the (E)entry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord. 11 Then (F)the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people, (G)“This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
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Micah 3:6
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6 Therefore (A)it shall be night to you, without vision,
and darkness to you, without divination.
(B)The sun shall go down on the prophets,
and the day shall be black over them;
Ezekiel 14:9
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9 And if the prophet is deceived and speaks a word, (A)I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.
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Psalm 69:23
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23 (A)Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,
(B)and make their loins tremble continually.
1 Samuel 26:12
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12 So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul's head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because (A)a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.
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Micah 3:1
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
Isaiah 29:14
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14 therefore, behold, (A)I will again
do wonderful things with this people,
with wonder upon wonder;
and (B)the wisdom of their wise men shall perish,
and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden.”
Isaiah 3:2-3
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2 (A)the mighty man and the soldier,
the judge and the prophet,
the diviner and the elder,
3 the captain of fifty
and the man of rank,
the counselor and the skillful magician
and the expert in charms.
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