Psalms 135:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

Word-for-word

5/5

Readability

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Pastors and teachers
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Referenced Verses

Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.
Matt 13:14-16 : 14 And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive: 15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, And their ears are dull of hearing, And their eyes they have closed; Lest haply they should perceive with their eyes, And hear with their ears, And understand with their heart, And should turn again, And I should heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 115:4-8
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96%
4Their idols are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
5They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
6They have ears, but they hear not; Noses have they, but they smell not;
7They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.
8They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:17-18
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92%
17They have ears, but they hear not; Neither is there any breath in their mouths.
18They that make them shall be like unto them; Yea, every one that trusteth in them.
Ps 135:15
79%
15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The work of men's hands.
Isa 44:18
79%
18They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.
Isa 42:17-18
2 verses
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17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.
18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
Jer 10:5
73%
5They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
Jer 5:21
73%
21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; that have eyes, and see not; that have ears, and hear not:
Isa 44:9-10
2 verses
73%
9They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things that they delight in shall not profit; and their own witnesses see not, nor know: that they may be put to shame.
10Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Ps 59:7
72%
7Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
Matt 13:13-14
2 verses
71%
13Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
Jer 10:14-15
2 verses
71%
14Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
15They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Hab 2:18-19
2 verses
71%
18What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
19Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
Isa 42:20
71%
20Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.
Jer 10:8
70%
8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.
Mic 7:16
70%
16The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth; their ears shall be deaf.
Rom 11:8
70%
8according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.
Jer 51:17-18
2 verses
70%
17Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
18They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Isa 2:8
70%
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Isa 56:10
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10His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isa 32:3
70%
3And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
Job 32:15-16
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15They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.
16And shall I wait, because they speak not, Because they stand still, and answer no more?
Ps 38:13
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13But I, as a deaf man, hear not; And I am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
Deut 29:4
70%
4but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Ps 115:17
70%
17The dead praise not Jehovah, Neither any that go down into silence;
Ps 19:3
70%
3There is no speech nor language; Their voice is not heard.
Matt 13:16
70%
16But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear.
Ezek 13:6
69%
6They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word would be confirmed.
Acts 28:26
69%
26saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
Deut 4:28
69%
28And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
Isa 41:29
69%
29Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
Deut 32:28
69%
28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.
Isa 29:18
69%
18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
Ps 73:7
69%
7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.
Mark 8:18
69%
18Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Rev 9:20
69%
20And the rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk: