Isaiah 29:12

Geneva Bible (1560)

And the booke is giuen vnto him that can not reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee; he shall say, I can not reade.

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  • John 7:15-16 : 15 And the Iewes marueiled, saving, Howe knoweth this man the Scriptures, seeing that hee neuer learned! 16 Iesus answered them, and saide, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
  • Isa 28:12-13 : 12 Vnto whome hee saide, This is the rest: giue rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing, but they would not heare. 13 Therefore shall the worde of the Lord be vnto them precept vpon precept, precept vpo precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle and there a litle, that they may goe, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
  • Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.
  • Jer 5:4 : 4 Therefore I saide, Surely they are poore, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the iudgement of their God.
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lacke of knowledge: because thou hast refused knowledge, I will also refuse thee, that thou shalt be no Priest to me: and seeing thou hast forgotten the Lawe of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

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  • Isa 29:10-11
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    10For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.

    11And the vision of them all is become vnto you, as the wordes of a booke that is sealed vp, which they deliuer to one that can reade, saying, Reade this, I pray thee. Then shall he say, I can not: for it is sealed.

  • Isa 29:13-15
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    13Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

    14Therefore behold, I wil againe doe a marueilous worke in this people, euen a marueilous worke, and a wonder: for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish, and the vnderstanding of their prudent men shalbe hid.

    15Wo vnto them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lorde: for their workes are in darkenes, and they say, Who seeth vs? and who knoweth vs?

  • Isa 6:9
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    9And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue.

  • Isa 50:4-5
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    4The Lorde God hath giuen me a tongue of the learned, that I shoulde knowe to minister a woord in time to him that is weary: he will raise me vp in the morning: in the morning hee will waken mine eare to heare, as the learned.

    5The Lord God hath opened mine eare and I was not rebellious, neither turned I backe.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Heare nowe this, O foolish people, and without vnderstanding, which haue eyes and see not, which haue eares and heare not.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18And in that day shall the deafe heare the wordes of the booke, and the eyes of the blinde shall see out of obscuritie, and out of darkenesse.

  • Ezek 3:5-6
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    5For thou art not sent to a people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an hard language, but to the house of Israel,

    6Not to many people of an vnknowen tongue, or of an harde language, whose wordes thou canst not vnderstand: yet if I should sende thee to them, they would obey thee.

  • Isa 42:20
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    20Seeing many things, but thou keepest them not? opening the eares, but he heareth not?

  • Acts 28:26
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    26Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, By hearing ye shal heare, & shal not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue.

  • Isa 28:9-13
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    9Whome shall he teache knowledge? and whome shall he make to vnderstand the thinges that hee heareth? them that are weyned from the milke, and drawen from the breastes.

    10For precept must be vpon precept, precept vpon precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle, and there a litle.

    11For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speake vnto this people.

    12Vnto whome hee saide, This is the rest: giue rest to him that is weary: and this is the refreshing, but they would not heare.

    13Therefore shall the worde of the Lord be vnto them precept vpon precept, precept vpo precept, line vnto line, line vnto line, there a litle and there a litle, that they may goe, and fall backward, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

  • 2 Chr 34:18
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    18Also Shaphan ye chanceler declared to the King, saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath giuen mee a booke, and Shaphan read it before the King.

  • Prov 29:19
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    19A seruant will not be chastised with words: though he vnderstand, yet he will not answere.

  • Matt 13:14
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    14So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shal see, and shall not perceiue.

  • Luke 4:17
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    17And there was deliuered vnto him the booke of the Prophet Esaias: and when hee had opened the booke, hee founde the place, where it was written,

  • Deut 30:12-13
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    12It is not in heauen, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go vp for vs to heauen, & bring it vs, and cause vs to heare it, that we may doe it?

    13Neither is it beyonde the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go ouer the sea for vs, & bring it vs, & cause vs to heare it, that we may do it?

  • 2 Kgs 22:16
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    16Thus sayth the Lorde, Behold, I wil bring euill vpon this place, & on the inhabitants thereof, euen al the words of the booke which ye King of Iudah hath read,

  • 2 Kgs 22:10
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    10Also Shaphan the chanceller shewed the King saying, Hilkiah the Priest hath deliuered me a booke; Shaphan read it before the King.

  • Jer 6:10
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    10Vnto whome shall I speake, and admonish that they may heare? beholde, their eares are vncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: beholde, the worde of the Lord is vnto them as a reproche: they haue no delite in it.

  • Ezek 2:9-10
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    9And when I looked vp, beholde, an hande was sent vnto me, and loe, a roule of a booke was therein.

    10And he spred it before me, and it was written within and without, and there was written therein, Lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

  • Jer 9:12
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    12Who is wise, to vnderstande this? And to whome the mouth of the Lorde hath spoken, euen he shal declare it. Why doth the land perish, and is burnt vp like a wildernesse, that none passeth through?

  • Ps 38:14
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    14Thus am I as a man, that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofes.

  • Jer 36:15
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    15And they saide vnto him, Sit downe now, and reade it, that we may heare. So Baruch read it in their audience.

  • Isa 8:11
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    11For the Lorde spake thus to me in taking of mine hand, and taught me, that I should not walke in the way of this people, saying,

  • Prov 30:3
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    3For I haue not learned wisedome, nor atteined to the knowledge of holy things.

  • Jer 8:9
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    9The wise men are ashamed: they are afraid and taken. loe, they haue reiected the word of the Lorde, and what wisdome is in them?

  • Jer 1:6
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    6Then said I, Oh, Lord God, behold, I can not speake, for I am a childe.

  • Ezek 12:1
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    1The worde of the Lorde also came vnto me, saying,

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They haue not knowen, nor vnderstand: for God hath shut their eyes that they cannot see, and their heartes, that they cannot vnderstand.

  • Jer 29:19
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    19Because they haue not hearde my words, saith the Lorde, which I sent vnto them by my seruantes the Prophetes, rising vp earely, and sending them, but yee woulde not heare, saith the Lorde.

  • Dan 5:15
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    15Now therefore, wisemen and astrologians haue bene brought before me, that they should reade this writing, and shewe me the interpretation thereof: but they could not declare the interpretation of the thing.

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    18Heare, ye deafe: and ye blinde, regarde, that ye may see.

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    15Heare and giue eare, be not proude: for the Lord hath spoken it.

  • 1 Cor 14:21
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    21In the Lawe it is written, By men of other tongues, and by other languages will I speake vnto this people: yet so shal they not heare me, sayth the Lord.

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    19And it shall be with him, and he shall reade therein all daies of his life, that he may learne to feare the Lord his God, & to keepe all ye words of this Lawe, and these ordinances for to doe them:

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    21So the King sent Iehudi to fet the roule, and he tooke it out of Elishama the Chancellours chamber, and Iehudi read it in the audience of the King, and in the audience of all the princes, which stoode beside the King.

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    8Therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes, Because ye haue not heard my wordes,

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    8The I heard it, but I vnderstood it not: the said I, O my Lord, what shalbe ye end of these things?

  • Jer 35:13
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    13Thus saith the Lorde of hostes, the God of Israel, Goe, and tell the men of Iudah, and the inhabitants of Ierusalem, Will ye not receiue doctrine to obey my wordes, saith the Lord?

  • Prov 1:24
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    24Because I haue called, & ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, & none woulde regarde.