Psalms 135:16

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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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  • Ps 115:4-8
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    4Their idols are made of silver and gold– they are man-made.

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

    6ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell,

    7hands, but cannot touch, feet, but cannot walk. They cannot even clear their throats.

    8Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 135:17-18
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    17and ears, but cannot hear. Indeed, they cannot breathe.

    18Those who make them will end up like them, as will everyone who trusts in them.

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

  • Isa 44:18
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    18They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

  • Isa 42:17-18
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    17Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’”

    18The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

  • Jer 10:5
    73%

    5Such 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.”

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Isa 44:9-10
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    9All 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.

    10Who forms a god and casts an idol that will prove worthless?

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Look, they hurl insults at me and openly threaten to kill me, for they say,“Who hears?”

  • Matt 13:13-14
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    13For 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.

    14And 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.

  • Jer 10:14-15
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    14All 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.

    15They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Hab 2:18-19
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    18What 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?

    19Woe 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.

  • Isa 42:20
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    20You see many things, but don’t comprehend; their ears are open, but do not hear.”

  • Jer 10:8
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    8The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!

  • Mic 7:16
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    16Nations 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.

  • Rom 11:8
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    8as it is written,“God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, to this very day.”

  • Jer 51:17-18
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    17All 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.

    18They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

  • Isa 2:8
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    8Their land is full of worthless idols; they worship the product of their own hands, what their own fingers have fashioned.

  • Isa 56:10
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    10All 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.

  • Isa 32:3
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    3Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

  • Job 32:15-16
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    15Job’s Friends Failed to Answer“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

    16And I have waited. But because they do not speak, because they stand there and answer no more,

  • Ps 38:13
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    13But I am like a deaf man– I hear nothing; I am like a mute who cannot speak.

  • Deut 29:4
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    4But to this very day the LORD has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

  • Ps 115:17
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    17The dead do not praise the LORD, nor do any of those who descend into the silence of death.

  • Ps 19:3
    70%

    3There is no actual speech or word, nor is its voice literally heard.

  • Matt 13:16
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    16“But your eyes are blessed because they see, and your ears because they hear.

  • Ezek 13:6
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    6They see delusion and their omens are a lie. They say,“the LORD declares,” though the LORD has not sent them; yet they expect their word to be confirmed.

  • Acts 28:26
    69%

    26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

  • Deut 4:28
    69%

    28There you will worship gods made by human hands– wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

  • Isa 41:29
    69%

    29Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

  • Deut 32:28
    69%

    28They are a nation devoid of wisdom, and there is no understanding among them.

  • Isa 29:18
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    18At 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.

  • Ps 73:7
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    7Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

  • Mark 8:18
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    18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

  • Rev 9:20
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    20The 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.