Romans 11:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

according as it hath been written, `God gave to them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes not to see, and ears not to hear,' -- unto this very day,

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  • Deut 29:4 : 4 and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,
  • Isa 29:10 : 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.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
  • Ezek 12:2 : 2 `Son of man, in the midst of the rebellious house thou art dwelling, that have eyes to see, and they have not seen; ears they have to hear, and they have not heard; for a rebellious house `are' they.
  • Matt 13:13-14 : 13 `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand, 14 and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,
  • 2 Cor 3:14-15 : 14 but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless -- 15 but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,
  • Mark 4:11-12 : 11 and he said to them, `To you it hath been given to know the secret of the reign of God, but to those who are without, in similes are all the things done; 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.'
  • Luke 8:10 : 10 And he said, `To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of God, and to the rest in similes; that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.
  • Acts 28:26 : 26 saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,
  • 2 Kgs 17:41 : 41 and these nations are fearing Jehovah, and their graven images they have served, both their sons and their sons' sons; as their fathers did, they are doing unto this day.
  • Isa 6:9 : 9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.
  • 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 Unto this day they are doing according to the former customs -- they are not fearing Jehovah, and are not doing according to their statutes, and according to their ordinances, and according to the law, and according to the command, that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob whose name He made Israel,

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    7 What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

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    9 and David saith, `Let their table become for a snare, and for a trap, and for a stumbling-block, and for a recompense to them;

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    11 I say, then, Did they stumble that they might fall? let it not be! but by their fall the salvation `is' to the nations, to arouse them to jealousy;

  • John 12:39-40
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    39 Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,

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  • Isa 44:18
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    18 They have not known, nor do they understand, For He hath daubed their eyes from seeing, Their heart from acting wisely.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26 saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

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

  • Matt 13:13-16
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    13 `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

    14 and fulfilled on them is the prophecy of Isaiah, that saith, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

    15 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.

    16 `And happy are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear,

  • Isa 6:9-10
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    9 And He saith, `Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

    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.'

  • Mark 4:12
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    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.'

  • Isa 29:10-11
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    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;'

  • 2 Cor 3:14-15
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    14 but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn -- which in Christ is being made useless --

    15 but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie,

  • Deut 29:4
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    4 and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

  • Rom 11:25
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    25 For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this secret -- that ye may not be wise in your own conceits -- that hardness in part to Israel hath happened till the fulness of the nations may come in;

  • Zech 7:11
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    11 And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

  • Eph 4:18
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    18 being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

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    18 Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?

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    18 Ye deaf, hear; and ye blind, look to see.

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    16 A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

    17 Ears they have, and they give not ear, Nose -- there is no breath in their mouth!

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    4 in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;

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    18 And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

  • Rom 11:30-32
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    30 for as ye also once did not believe in God, and now did find kindness by the unbelief of these:

    31 so also these now did not believe, that in your kindness they also may find kindness;

    32 for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.

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    21 but according as it hath been written, `To whom it was not told concerning him, they shall see; and they who have not heard, shall understand.'

  • 1 Pet 2:8
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    8 and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence -- who are stumbling at the word, being unbelieving, -- to which also they were set;

  • Isa 28:12
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    12 Unto whom He hath said, `This `is' the rest, give ye rest to the weary, And this -- the refreshing:' And they have not been willing to hear,

  • Jer 5:21
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    21 Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

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    32 wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

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    16 and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,

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    5 A mouth they have, and they speak not, Eyes they have, and they see not,

    6 Ears they have, and they hear not, A nose they have, and they smell not,

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    18 but I say, Did they not hear? yes, indeed -- `to all the earth their voice went forth, and to the ends of the habitable world their sayings.'

    19 But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by `that which is' not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

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    8 And they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, And they walk each in the stubbornness of their evil heart, And I bring on them all the words of this covenant, That I commanded to do, and they did not.'

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    3 And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.

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    8 He brought out a blind people who have eyes, And deaf ones who have ears.

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    15 And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.