Verse 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.'

Referenced Verses

  • John 8:43-44 : 43 Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word. 44 You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it.
  • Zech 7:11 : 11 But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
  • Heb 5:11 : 11 About him we have many words to say, and hard to interpret, seeing you have become dull of hearing.
  • Ps 119:70 : 70 Their heart is as callous as the fat, But I delight in your law.
  • Isa 6:10 : 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."
  • 2 Tim 4:4 : 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn aside to fables.
  • Isa 29:10-12 : 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. 11 All vision is become to you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one who is learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I can't, for it is sealed: 12 and the book is delivered to him who is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray you; and he says, I am not learned.
  • Isa 44:20 : 20 He feeds on ashes; a deceived heart has turned him aside; and he can't deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
  • Isa 57:18 : 18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
  • Jer 3:22 : 22 Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
  • Jer 17:14 : 14 Heal me, O Yahweh, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.
  • Jer 33:6 : 6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
  • Hos 14:4 : 4 "I will heal their waywardness. I will love them freely; For my anger is turned away from him.
  • Heb 6:4-6 : 4 For concerning those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then fell away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance; seeing they crucify the Son of God for themselves again, and put him to open shame.
  • Rev 22:2 : 2 in the middle of its street. On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruits, yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
  • Mark 4:12 : 12 that 'seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.'"
  • Acts 3:19 : 19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
  • Acts 7:57 : 57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord.
  • 2 Thess 2:10-11 : 10 and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn't receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may recover themselves out of the devil's snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.