Psalms 135:16

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They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of this people dull, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind; otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back and be healed."
  • Matt 13:14-16 : 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.' 15 For the heart of this people has grown dull; they can barely hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, turn back to me, and I would heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 115:4-8
    5 verses
    96%

    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

    5They have mouths but cannot speak, eyes but cannot see.

    6They have ears but cannot hear, noses but cannot smell.

    7They have hands but cannot touch, feet but cannot walk, nor can they make a sound with their throats.

    8Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  • Ps 135:17-18
    2 verses
    92%

    17They have ears but cannot hear; there is no breath in their mouths.

    18Those who make them will become like them; so will all who trust in them.

  • Ps 135:15
    79%

    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Isa 44:18
    79%

    18They have no knowledge or understanding; their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see, and their hearts so they cannot understand.

  • Isa 42:17-18
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    73%

    17They will be turned back; they will be utterly ashamed—those who trust in carved idols and say to molten images, 'You are our gods.'

    18Hear, you deaf! Look, you blind, that you may see!

  • Jer 10:5
    73%

    5They are like scarecrows in a cucumber field; they cannot speak. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not fear them, for they can do no harm—nor can they do any good.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    73%

    9All who make idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses see nothing and know nothing, so they will be put to shame.

    10Who fashions a god or casts an idol that can profit nothing?

  • Ps 59:7
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    7They return in the evening, snarling like dogs as they prowl the city.

  • Matt 13:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13That is why I speak to them in parables, because although they see, they do not see; and although they hear, they do not hear or understand.

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

  • Jer 10:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Everyone is senseless and without knowledge; every goldsmith is shamed by their idols. The images he makes are a fraud; they have no breath in them.

    15They are worthless, a work of mockery; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Hab 2:18-19
    2 verses
    71%

    18What profit is an idol when its maker has carved it, or a cast image that teaches falsehood? For its maker trusts in his own creation to make worthless idols that cannot speak.

    19Woe to him who says to wood, 'Awake!' or to silent stone, 'Arise!' Can it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, yet there is no breath at all within it.

  • Isa 42:20
    71%

    20You have seen many things, but you do not observe them; your ears are open, but you do not listen.

  • Jer 10:8
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    8They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.

  • Mic 7:16
    70%

    16The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will put their hands over their mouths, and their ears will become deaf.

  • Rom 11:8
    70%

    8As it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see and ears that could not hear, to this very day."

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17Every human is senseless, lacking knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.

    18They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment, they will perish.

  • Isa 2:8
    70%

    8Their land is filled with idols. They bow down to the work of their own hands, to what their fingers have made.

  • Isa 56:10
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    10Israel's watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs; they cannot bark. They lie around dreaming, loving to sleep.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3The eyes of those who see will no longer be closed, and the ears of those who hear will listen attentively.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15They are dismayed and have no more to say; words have left them.

    16Should I wait, now that they are not speaking and they stand there without replying any longer?

  • Ps 38:13
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    13Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to harm me speak of ruin and plot deception all day long.

  • Deut 29:4
    70%

    4I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your sandals did not wear out on your feet.

  • Ps 115:17
    70%

    17The dead do not praise the Lord, nor do any who go down into silence.

  • Ps 19:3
    70%

    3Day after day they pour forth speech, and night after night they reveal knowledge.

  • Matt 13:16
    70%

    16But blessed are your eyes, because they see, and your ears, because they hear.

  • Ezek 13:6
    69%

    6They have seen false visions and lying divinations. They say, ‘This is the declaration of the LORD,’ when the LORD has not sent them, and they hope to fulfill their words.

  • Acts 28:26
    69%

    26'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."'

  • Deut 4:28
    69%

    28There you will serve gods made by human hands—objects of wood and stone that cannot see, hear, eat, or smell.

  • Isa 41:29
    69%

    29Behold, all of them are worthless; their works are nothing; their metal idols are wind and emptiness.

  • Deut 32:28
    69%

    28For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.

  • Isa 29:18
    69%

    18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

  • Ps 73:7
    69%

    7Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

  • Mark 8:18
    69%

    18Do you have eyes and not see, and ears and not hear? And do you not remember?

  • Rev 9:20
    69%

    20The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk.