Psalms 135:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They have mouths, but no voice, they have eyes, but they do not see;

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of this people fat, and let their ears be stopped, and their eyes shut; for fear that they may see with their eyes, and be hearing with their ears, and their heart may become wise, and they may be turned to me and made well.
  • Matt 13:14-16 : 14 And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: 15 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well. 16 But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

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    4 Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

    5 They have mouths, but no voice; they have eyes, but they see not;

    6 They have ears, but no hearing; they have noses, but no sense of smell;

    7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

    8 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his faith in them.

  • Ps 135:17-18
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    17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

    18 Those who make them are like them; and so is everyone who puts his hope in them.

  • Ps 135:15
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    15 The images of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.

  • Isa 42:17-18
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    17 They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.

    18 Give ear, you whose ears are shut; and let your eyes be open, you blind, so that you may see.

  • Jer 10:5
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    5 It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9 Those who make a pictured image are all of them as nothing, and the things of their desire will be of no profit to them: and their servants see not, and have no knowledge; so they will be put to shame.

    10 Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13 For this reason I put things into the form of stories; because they see without seeing, and give ear without hearing, and the sense is not clear to them.

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  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

    15 They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18 What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

    19 A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.

  • Isa 42:20
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    20 Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8 But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

  • Mic 7:16
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    16 The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

  • Rom 11:8
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    8 As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17 Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

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    10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dogs without tongues, unable to make a sound; stretched out dreaming, loving sleep.

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    3 And the eyes of those who see will not be shut, and those who have hearing will give ear to the word.

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    15 Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.

    16 And am I to go on waiting while they have nothing to say? while they keep quiet and give no more answers?

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    13 But I kept my ears shut like a man without hearing; like a man without a voice, never opening his mouth.

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    4 But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

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    17 The dead do not give praise to the Lord; or those who go down to the underworld.

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    3 There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

  • Matt 13:16
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    16 But a blessing be on your eyes, because they see; and on your ears, because they are open.

  • Ezek 13:6
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    6 They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.

  • Acts 28:26
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    26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

  • Deut 4:28
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    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Isa 41:29
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    29 Truly they are all nothing, their works are nothing and of no value: their metal images are of no more use than wind.

  • Deut 32:28
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    28 For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18 And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

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    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

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    20 And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking: