Psalms 135:16
They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
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- Isa 6:10 : 10 Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
- Matt 13:14-16 : 14 And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend. 15 For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’ 16 “But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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4 Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.
5 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see,
6 ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,
7 hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.
8 Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
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17 and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.
18 Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.
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15 The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.
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18 They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.
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17 Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”
18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
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5 Such idols are like scarecrows in a cucumber field. They cannot talk. They must be carried because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them because they cannot hurt you. And they do not have any power to help you.”
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9 All who form idols are nothing; the things in which they delight are worthless. Their witnesses cannot see; they recognize nothing, so they are put to shame.
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13 For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.
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14 All these idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
15 They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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18 What good is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? Why would its creator place his trust in it and make such mute, worthless things?
19 Woe to the one who says to wood,‘Wake up!’– he who says to speechless stone,‘Awake!’ Can it give reliable guidance? It is overlaid with gold and silver; it has no life’s breath inside it.
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20 You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”
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8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
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16 Nations will see this and be disappointed by all their strength, they will put their hands over their mouths, and act as if they were deaf.
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17 All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
18 They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.
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8 Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.
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10 All their watchmen are blind, they are unaware. All of them are like mute dogs, unable to bark. They pant, lie down, and love to snooze.
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16 And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,
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16 “But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.
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28 There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.
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29 Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.
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28 They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.
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18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.
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7 Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.
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18 Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
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20 The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood– idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.