Psalms 69:23

Webster's Bible (1833)

Let their eyes be darkened, so that they can't see. Let their backs be continually bent.

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  • Dan 5:6 : 6 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his loins were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.
  • Isa 6:9-9 : 9 He said, "Go, and tell this people, 'You hear indeed, But don't understand; And you see indeed, But don't perceive.' 10 Make the heart of this people fat; 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 turn again, and be healed."
  • Jer 30:6 : 6 Ask now, and see whether a man does travail with child: why do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
  • Rom 11:10 : 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."
  • Rom 11:25 : 25 For I don't desire, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} to have you ignorant of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were hardened, for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains, because in Christ it passes away.
  • Deut 28:65-67 : 65 Among these nations shall you find no ease, and there shall be no rest for the sole of your foot: but Yahweh will give you there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and pining of soul; 66 and your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you shall fear night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life. 67 In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
  • Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore are my loins filled with anguish; pangs have taken hold on me, as the pangs of a woman in travail: I am pained so that I can't hear; I am dismayed so that I can't see. 4 My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
  • Isa 29:9-9 : 9 Stay you and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. 10 For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
  • Matt 13:14-15 : 14 In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, 'By hearing you will hear, And will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, And will in no way perceive: 15 For this people's heart has grown callous, Their ears are dull of hearing, They have closed their eyes; Or else perhaps they might perceive with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And should turn again; And I would heal them.'
  • John 12:39-40 : 39 For this cause they couldn't believe, for Isaiah said again, 40 "He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, Lest they should see with their eyes, And perceive with their heart, And would turn, And I would heal them."
  • Acts 28:26-27 : 26 saying, 'Go to this people, and say, In hearing, you will hear, But will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, But will in no way perceive. 27 For this people's heart has grown callous. Their ears are dull of hearing. Their eyes they have closed. Lest they should see with their eyes, Hear with their ears, Understand with their heart, And would turn again, And I would heal them.'

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  • Ps 69:24-28
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    24 Pour out your indignation on them. Let the fierceness of your anger overtake them.

    25 Let their habitation be desolate. Let no one dwell in their tents.

    26 For they persecute him whom you have wounded. They tell of the sorrow of those whom you have hurt.

    27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

    28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.

  • Rom 11:9-10
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    9 David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, A stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

    10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

  • 22 Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.

  • Ps 83:16-17
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    16 Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.

    17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

  • 6 Let their way be dark and slippery, Yahweh's angel pursuing them.

  • Lam 3:64-66
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    64 You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

    65 You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.

    66 You will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Yahweh.

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    7 But God will shoot at them. They will be suddenly struck down with an arrow.

    8 Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • Job 3:4-5
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    4 Let that day be darkness; Don't let God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine on it.

    5 Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

  • 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

  • Jer 18:21-23
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    21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, [and] their young men struck of the sword in battle.

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

    23 Yet, Yahweh, you know all their counsel against me to kill me; don't forgive their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from your sight; but let them be overthrown before you; deal you with them in the time of your anger.

  • 22 and they shall look to the earth, and see, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.

  • 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • 7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

  • Ps 70:2-3
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    2 Let them be disappointed and confounded who seek my soul. Let those who desire my ruin be turned back in disgrace.

    3 Let them be turned because of their shame Who say, "Aha! Aha!"

  • Ps 40:14-15
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    14 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

    15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, "Aha! Aha!"

  • Ps 140:9-10
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    9 As for the head of those who surround me, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

    10 Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, Into miry pits, from where they never rise.

  • 19 How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

  • 34 so that you shall be mad for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.

  • 15 Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.

  • 15 Let them be before Yahweh continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

  • 7 Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.

  • 10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth, Their posterity from among the children of men.

  • 18 Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but don't let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

  • 13 Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

  • 10 Make the heart of this people fat; 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 turn again, and be healed."

  • 28 Yahweh will strike you with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart;

  • Ps 35:25-26
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    25 Don't let them say in their heart, "Aha! That's the way we want it!" Don't let them say, "We have swallowed him up!"

    26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

  • 16 Those who see you shall gaze at you, they shall consider you, [saying], "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

  • 12 Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

  • 16 to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; everyone who passes thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.

  • 4 To shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

  • 6 At their presence the peoples are in anguish. All faces have grown pale.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.