Psalms 135:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes have they, but they do not see;

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  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the heart of this people dull, 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 be converted and healed.
  • Matt 13:14-16 : 14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive. 15 For this people's heart has become callous; they hardly 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, and turn, and I would heal them. 16 But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

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  • Ps 115:4-8
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    4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

    5 They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

    6 They have ears, but they do not hear; noses they have, but they do not smell;

    7 They have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they speak through their throat.

    8 Those who make them are like them; so is everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 135:17-18
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    17 They have ears, but they do not hear; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

    18 Those who make them are like them: so is everyone that trusts in them.

  • 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • 18 They have not known nor understood: for he has shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

  • Isa 42:17-18
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    17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in carved images, that say to the molded images, 'You are our gods.'

    18 Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.

  • 5 They stand upright like a palm tree, but do not speak: they must be carried, because they cannot go. Do not be afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

  • 21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9 Those who make a carved image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

    10 Who has formed a god, or cast a carved image that is profitable for nothing?

  • 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

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    13 This is why I speak to them in parables: Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.

    14 In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: By hearing, you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing, you shall see and shall not perceive.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is humiliated by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    15 They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation, they shall perish.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18 What profit is the carved image that its maker has carved it; the molded image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?

    19 Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake; to the mute stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in its midst.

  • 20 Seeing many things, but you do not observe; opening the ears, but he does not hear.

  • 8 But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

  • 16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might; they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

  • 8 According as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear, to this day.

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17 Every man is senseless by his knowledge; every craftsman is put to shame by the graven image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

    18 They are vanity, the work of errors; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

  • 8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, what their own fingers have made.

  • 10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

  • 3 And the eyes of those who see shall not be dim, and the ears of those who hear shall listen.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15 They were amazed; they answered no more; they stopped speaking.

    16 When I had waited, for they did not speak but stood still and answered no more,

  • 13 But I, like a deaf man, do not hear, and I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.

  • 4 Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

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

  • 3 There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.

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

  • 6 They have seen falsehood and lying divination, saying, 'The LORD says'; but the LORD has not sent them. And they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

  • 26 saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive.

  • 28 And there you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • 29 Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.

  • 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, nor is there any understanding in them.

  • 18 And 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.

  • 7 Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

  • 18 Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

  • 20 But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons, and idols of gold, silver, brass, stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.