Jeremiah 5:21
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21 Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
who have eyes but do not see,
who have ears but do not hear.(A)
Ezekiel 12:2
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2 Mortal, you are living in the midst of a rebellious house who have eyes to see but do not see, who have ears to hear but do not hear,(A)
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Acts 28:26
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26 ‘Go to this people and say,
You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.
Isaiah 6:9-10
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9 And he said, “Go and say to this people:
‘Keep listening, but do not comprehend;
keep looking, but do not understand.’(A)
10 Make the mind of this people dull,
and stop their ears,
and shut their eyes,
so that they may not look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and comprehend with their minds
and turn and be healed.”(B)
Romans 11:8
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8 as it is written,
“God gave them a sluggish spirit,
eyes that would not see
and ears that would not hear,
down to this very day.”(A)
Matthew 13:13-15
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13 The reason I speak to them in parables is that ‘seeing they do not perceive, and hearing they do not listen, nor do they understand.’(A) 14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says:
‘You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.(B)
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes,
so that they might not look with their eyes,
and hear with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’(C)
John 12:40
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40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
so that they might not look with their eyes
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.”(A)
Jeremiah 4:22
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22 “For my people are foolish;
they do not know me;
they are stupid children;
they have no understanding.
They are skilled in doing evil
but do not know how to do good.”(A)
Mark 8:18
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18 Do you have eyes and fail to see? Do you have ears and fail to hear? And do you not remember?
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Jeremiah 8:7
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7 Even the stork in the heavens
knows its times,
and the turtledove, swallow, and crane[a]
observe the time of their coming,
but my people do not know
the ordinance of the Lord.(A)
Footnotes
- 8.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Jeremiah 5:4
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4 Then I said, “These are only the poor;
they have no sense,
for they do not know the way of the Lord,
the law of their God.(A)
Isaiah 44:18
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18 They do not know, nor do they comprehend, for their eyes are shut, so that they cannot see, and their minds as well, so that they cannot understand.(A)
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Psalm 94:8
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8 Understand, O dullest of the people;
fools, when will you be wise?(A)
Isaiah 27:11
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11 When its boughs are dry, they are broken;
women come and make a fire of them.
For this is a people without understanding;
therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them;
he who formed them will show them no favor.(A)
Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why should fools have a price in hand
to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?
Deuteronomy 32:6
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6 Do you thus repay the Lord,
O foolish and senseless people?
Is not he your father who created you,
who made you and established you?(A)
Deuteronomy 29:4
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4 But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.(A)
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Hosea 7:11
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Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 Ephraim has become like a dove,
silly and without sense;
they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.(A)
Jeremiah 10:8
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