Verse 20

Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth.

Referenced Verses

  • Num 14:22 : 22 But all those men whiche haue seene my glory, and my miracles whiche I did in Egypt and in the wildernesse, and haue tempted me nowe this ten tymes, and haue not hearkened vnto my voyce:
  • Deut 4:9 : 9 Take heede to thy selfe therefore, and kepe thy soule diligently, that thou forget not the thynges which thyne eyes haue seene, and that they depart not out of thy heart all the dayes of thy life: but teache them thy sonnes, & thy sonnes sonnes.
  • Deut 29:2-4 : 2 And Moyses called all Israel, & sayde vnto them: Ye haue seene all that the Lorde did before your eyes in the lande of Egypt, vnto Pharao and vnto all his seruauntes, and vnto all his lande, 3 The great temptations which thine eyes haue seene, those great miracles and wonders: 4 And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.
  • Neh 9:10-17 : 10 And shewed tokens and wonders vpon Pharao and all his seruauntes, and on all the people of his lande: For thou knowest that they were presumptuous and cruell against them: and so madest thou thee a name as it is this day. 11 And the red sea diddest thou deuide in sunder before them, so that they went through the middest of the sea drye shod: and their persecuters threwest thou into the deepe, as a stone in the mightie waters: 12 And leddest them on the day time in a cloudie piller, and on the night season in a piller of fyre, to shewe them light in the way that they went. 13 Thou camest downe also vpon mount Sinai, and speakest vnto them from heauen, and gauest them right iudgementes, true lawes, good commaundementes and statutes: 14 And declaredst vnto them thy holy Sabbath, and commaundedst them preceptes, ordinaunces, and lawes, by the hande of Moyses thy seruaunt: 15 And gauest them bread from heauen when they were hungry, and broughtest foorth water for them out of the rocke when they were thirstye, and promysedst them that they should go in and take possession of the lande ouer which thou haddest lyft vp thyne hand for to geue them. 16 But they and our fathers were proud and hardnecked, so that they folowed not thy commaundementes: 17 And woulde not obey, neither were mindeful of the wonders that thou diddest for the: but hardened their neckes, and had in their heades to returne to their bondage by their rebellion: But thou O God of mercies, gracious, and full of compassion, of long suffering, and of great mercie, yet forsookest them not.
  • Ps 106:7-9 : 7 Our fathers did not well consider thy wonders in Egypt, neither did they remember thy manifolde great goodnes: but they rebelled at the sea, euen at the red sea. 8 Neuerthelesse, he saued them for his names sake: that he myght make his power to be knowen. 9 And he rebuked the red sea, and it was dryed vp: so he led them through the deepe, as through a wyldernesse. 10 And he saued them from the hande of suche as hated them: & redeemed them from the hande of the enemie. 11 As for their aduersaries the waters ouerwhelmed them: there was not one of them left remayning. 12 Then beleued they his wordes: and song prayse vnto him. 13 But within a very short whyle they forgat his workes: they woulde not wayte for his counsell.
  • Ps 107:43 : 43 Whosoeuer is wyse, he wyll both obserue these thinges: and also well consider the louing kindnesse of God.
  • Isa 1:3 : 3 The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his maisters cribbe: but Israel hath not knowen, my people hath geuen no heede.
  • Isa 48:6-8 : 6 Thou heardest it before, and beholde it is come to passe: And shall not ye your selues shewe foorth or confesse the same? But as for me, I tolde thee before at the begynnyng newe and secrete thynges which thou knewest not of, 7 And some done of olde tyme, wherof thou neuer heardest before they were brought to passe, that thou canst not say, beholde I knewe of them. 8 Moreouer, there be some wherof thou hast neither heard nor knowen, neither haue ben opened vnto thyne eares afore tyme: For I knewe that thou wouldest malitiously offende, therfore haue I called thee a transgressour, euen from thy mothers wombe.
  • Isa 58:2 : 2 For they seeke me dayly, and wyll knowe my wayes, euen as it were a people that dyd right, and had not forsaken the statutes of their God: they aske of me concerning right iudgement, and wyll be nye vnto God.
  • Jer 6:10 : 10 But vnto whom shall I speake? whom shall I warne that he may take heede? Their eares are so vncircumcised, that they may not heare: beholde, they take the worde of God but for a scorne, and haue no lust therto.
  • Jer 42:2-5 : 2 And sayde vnto Ieremie the prophete: O heare our petition, that thou mayest pray for vs vnto the Lorde thy God, namely for all the remnaunt, wherof there be fewe of vs left of many, as thou seest vs: 3 That the Lorde thy God may shewe vs a way to go in, and tell vs what we shoulde do. 4 Then Ieremie the prophete sayde vnto them: I haue hearde you, beholde, I wyll pray vnto God your Lorde as ye haue required me: and loke what aunswere the Lorde geueth, I shall certifie you therof, and kepe nothyng backe from you. 5 And they sayde vnto Ieremie, The Lorde be a true and faithfull witnesse betwixt vs, that we wyll do all that the Lorde thy God commaundeth vs.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come vnto thee as the people vseth to come, and my people syt before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they do not therafter: for in their mouthes they make a iest of them, and their heart goeth after their couetousnes.
  • Mark 6:19-20 : 19 Therefore Herodias layde wayte for hym, and woulde haue kylled hym: but she coulde not. 20 For Herode feared Iohn, knowyng that he was a iuste man and an holye, and gaue hym reuerence: and when he hearde hym, he dyd many thynges, and hearde hym gladly.
  • John 9:37-40 : 37 And Iesus sayde vnto hym: Thou hast both seene hym, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38 And he sayde, Lorde, I beleue: And he worshipped hym. 39 And Iesus sayde vnto hym: I am come vnto iudgement into this worlde, that they which see not, myght see: and that they which see, myght be made blynde. 40 And some of the pharisees which were with hym, hearde these wordes, & sayde vnto hym: Are we blynde also?
  • John 11:37-50 : 37 And some of them sayde: Coulde not he which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue made also, that this man shoulde not haue dyed? 38 Iesus therfore agayne groned in him selfe, and came to the graue. It was a caue, and a stone layde on it. 39 Iesus sayde: Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of hym that was dead, sayde vnto hym, Lorde, by this tyme he stinketh: For he hath ben dead foure dayes. 40 Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto thee, that yf thou dyddest beleue, thou shouldest see the glory of God? 41 Then they toke away the stone from the place where the dead was layde. And Iesus lyft vp his eyes, and sayde: Father, I thanke thee that thou hast hearde me. 42 Howbeit, I knowe, that thou hearest me alwayes: but because of the people which stande by, I sayde it, that they maye beleue that thou hast sent me. 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cryed with a loude voyce: Lazarus, come foorth. 44 And he that was dead, came foorth, bounde hande and foote, with graue clothes, and his face was bounde with a napkyn. Iesus sayde vnto them: loose hym, and let hym go. 45 Then many of the Iewes which came to Marie, and had seene ye thynges which Iesus dyd, beleued on hym. 46 But some of them went their wayes to the pharisees, and tolde them what Iesus had done. 47 Then gathered the hye priestes and the pharisees a councell, and sayde: What do we? For this man doth many miracles. 48 If we let hym scape thus, all men wyll beleue on him, and the Romaynes shall come, and take away both our rowme and the people. 49 And one of them named Caiaphas, beyng the hye priest that same yere, sayde vnto them: Ye perceaue nothyng at all, 50 Nor consider, that it is expedient for vs, that one man dye for the people, and not that all the people perishe.
  • Acts 28:22-27 : 22 But we wyll heare of thee, what thou thynkest: For as concernyng this sect, we knowe that euery where it is spoke agaynst. 23 And when they had appoynted hym a day, there came many to hym into his lodgyng, to whom he expounded and testified the kyngdome of God, perswadyng them concernyng Iesus, both out of the lawe of Moyses, and out of the prophetes, euen from morning to night. 24 And some were perswaded in the thynges which were spoken, and some beleued not. 25 And when they agreed not among them selues, they departed after that Paul had spoken one worde, that is to say well spake the holy ghost by Esaias the prophete, vnto our fathers, 26 Saying: Go vnto this people, and say, with your eares shall ye heare, and shall not vnderstande: and with your eyes shall ye see, and not perceaue. 27 For the heart of this people is waxed grosse, & their eares are dull of hearing, and their eyes haue they closed: lest they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and shoulde be conuerted, and I shoulde heale them.
  • Rom 2:21 : 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest not thy selfe? Thou preachest a man shoulde not steale, yet thou stealest.