Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
saying,
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King James Version
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:
Holman Bible
when He said,
You will listen and listen,
yet never understand;
and you will look and look,
yet never perceive.
International Standard Version
He said, "Go to this people and say, "You will listen and listen but never understand, and you will look and look but never see!
A Conservative Version
saying, Go thou to this people, and say, Hearing ye will hear, and will, no, not understand, and seeing ye will see, and will, no, not perceive.
American Standard Version
saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
Amplified
‘Go to this people and say,
You will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;
An Understandable Version
saying, [Isa. 6:9-10], 'Go to these people and say, you will hear all right, but you will not understand [what you hear]. You will see all right, but you will not perceive [what you see].
Anderson New Testament
saying: Go to this people and say, You shall surely hear, but you will not understand; and you shall surely see, but you will not perceive.
Bible in Basic English
Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:
Common New Testament
saying, 'Go to this people and say, "you will be ever hearing, but will never understand; and you will be ever seeing, but will never perceive.
Daniel Mace New Testament
"go to this people and say, hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.
Darby Translation
saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear and not understand, and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.
Godbey New Testament
Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and may not understand; and seeing you shall see, and may not perceive:
Goodspeed New Testament
" 'Go to this Nation and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, And you will look, and look, and never see!
John Wesley New Testament
Saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.
Julia Smith Translation
Saying, Go to this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and ye should not perceive:
King James 2000
Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing you shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and not perceive:
Lexham Expanded Bible
saying, 'Go to this people and say, "{You will keep on hearing} and will never understand, and {you will keep on seeing} and will never perceive.
Modern King James verseion
saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
saying, 'Go unto this people and say: with your ears shall ye hear, and shall not understand: and with your eyes shall ye see and shall not perceive.
Moffatt New Testament
when he said, Go and tell this people, 'You will hear and hear but never understand, you will see and see but never perceive.'
Montgomery New Testament
"Go to the people and tell them, You will hear and hear, and by no means understand; And will look, and by no means see.
NET Bible
when 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.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
saying, "Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see and not perceive.
Sawyer New Testament
saying, Go to this people and say, Hearing you shall hear and not understand, and seeing you shall see and not perceive;
The Emphasized Bible
saying - Go thy way unto this people, and say - Ye shall, surely hear, and yet will in nowise understand. And, surely see, and yet will in nowise perceive;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
saying, Go to this people, and say, "In hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, yet in nowise perceive.
Twentieth Century New Testament
'Go to this nation and say--"You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, and, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving."
Webster
Saying, Go to this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive.
Weymouth New Testament
"'Go to this people and tell them, you will hear and hear, and by no means understand; and will look and look, and by no means see.
Williams New Testament
'Go to this people and say to them, "You will listen, and listen, and never understand, and you will look, and look, and never see!
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
saying, 'Go your way to this people, and say, With hearing ye shall hear, but in no wise understand; and, looking, ye shall look, and in no wise see;
Worsley New Testament
saying, Go to this people and say, Ye shall hear by the hearing of the ear, and not understand; and in seeing ye shall see, and not perceive: for the heart of this people is stupified,
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
The call of God » Rejection of, leads to » Judicial blindness
Deafness » Figurative » Of moral insensibility
Gentiles/heathen » Salvation coming to the gentiles
Heart » The unregenerate » Is judicially hardened
character of the unrenewed Heart » Often judicially stupefied
Prophecy » Miscellaneous, fulfilled » That blindness fulfilled
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 28:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Paul And The Jewish Community In Rome
25
And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: "The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
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Names
Cross References
Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
Ezekiel 12:2
"Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.
Isaiah 42:19-20
Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the LORD?
Matthew 13:14-15
Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: "'You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.
Mark 4:12
so that "they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven."
Luke 8:10
he said, "To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that 'seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.'
Deuteronomy 29:4
But to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
Psalm 81:11-12
"But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.
Isaiah 29:10
For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).
Isaiah 29:14
therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Isaiah 66:4
I also will choose harsh treatment for them and bring their fears upon them, because when I called, no one answered, when I spoke, they did not listen; but they did what was evil in my eyes and chose that in which I did not delight."
Jeremiah 5:21
"Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.
Ezekiel 3:6-7
not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.
Mark 8:17-18
And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?
Luke 24:25
And he said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Luke 24:45
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
John 12:38-40
so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: "Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"
Romans 11:8-10
as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day."
2 Corinthians 4:4-6
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.