Matthew 13:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they might see with the eyes, and with the ears might hear, and with the heart understand, and turn back, and I might heal them.

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  • John 8:43-44 : 43 wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word. 44 `Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I -- in Thy law I have delighted.
  • Isa 6:10 : 10 Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.
  • Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered. 11 And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it `is' sealed;' 12 And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 His ways I have seen, and I heal him, yea, I lead him, And recompense comforts to him and to his mourning ones.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou `art' Jehovah our God.
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O Jehovah, and I am healed, Save me, and I am saved, for my praise `art' Thou.
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure, And have healed them, and revealed to them The abundance of peace and truth.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 I heal their backsliding, I love them freely, For turned back hath Mine anger from him.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 for `it is' impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit, 5 and did taste the good saying of God, the powers also of the coming age, 6 and having fallen away, again to renew `them' to reformation, having crucified again to themselves the Son of God, and exposed to public shame.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 in the midst of its broad place, and of the river on this side and on that, `is' a tree of life, yielding twelve fruits, in each several month rendering its fruits, and the leaves of the tree `are' for the service of the nations;
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
  • Mark 4:12 : 12 that seeing they may see and not perceive, and hearing they may hear and not understand, lest they may turn, and the sins may be forgiven them.'
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 reform ye, therefore, and turn back, for your sins being blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
  • Acts 7:57 : 57 And they, having cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and did rush with one accord upon him,
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved, 11 and because of this shall God send to them a working of delusion, for their believing the lie,
  • 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 in meekness instructing those opposing -- if perhaps God may give to them repentance to an acknowledging of the truth, 26 and they may awake out of the devil's snare, having been caught by him at his will.

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