Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

saying,
Go to this people and say,
You will keep on hearing, but will not understand;
And you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive;

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,

Go to these people and say:
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 hearing, but will not understand,
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 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,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045

Go
πορεύομαι 
Poreuomai 
go, depart, walk, go way,
Usage: 101

πρός 
Pros 
unto, to, with, for, against, among, at, not tr, , vr to
Usage: 412

τοῦτον 
Touton 
Usage: 50

λαός 
Laos 
Usage: 137

and







and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

say
ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

ἀκοή 
Akoe 
Usage: 21

ye shall hear
ἀκούω 
Akouo 
Usage: 313

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

not
οὐ 
Ou 
οὐ 
Ou 
not, no, cannot ,
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032
Usage: 1032

συνίημι 
suniemi 
Usage: 14

βλέπω 
Blepo 
Usage: 85

ye shall see
βλέπω 
Blepo 
Usage: 85

Context Readings

Paul And The Jewish Community In Rome

25 And disagreeing with one another, they were let go, Paul saying one word: Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, 26 saying, "Go to this people and say: Hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and not perceive. 27 For the heart of this people was fattened, and they have heard with their ears dully; and they closed their eyes; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them."



Cross References

Isaiah 6:9-10

And He said, Go, and tell this people, You hear indeed, but do not understand; and seeing you see, but do not know.

Ezekiel 12:2

Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see and see not. They have ears to hear and 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 sent? Who is blind as he who is perfect, and blind as Jehovah's servant?

Matthew 13:14-15

And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which said, "By hearing you shall hear and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see and shall not perceive;

Mark 4:12

so that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.

Luke 8:10

And He said, To you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. But to others I speak in parables, so that seeing they might not see and hearing they might not understand.

Deuteronomy 29:4

Yet Jehovah has not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until today.

Psalm 81:11-12

But My people would not listen to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

Isaiah 29:10

For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes; He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.

Isaiah 29:14

therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.

Isaiah 66:4

I also will choose the things that delude them, and I will bring their fears on them, because I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they did not hear. But they did evil before My eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.

Jeremiah 5:21

Now hear this, O foolish people and without heart; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not;

Ezekiel 3:6-7

not to many people of a deep lip and of a difficult language, whose words you cannot hear. Surely, if I had sent you to them, they would have listened to you.

Mark 8:17-18

And knowing it, Jesus said to them, Why do you reason that it is because you have no loaves? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Have you still hardened your heart?

Luke 24:25

And He said to them, O fools and slow of heart to believe all things that the prophets spoke!

Luke 24:45

And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures.

John 12:38-40

so that the saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, "Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

Romans 11:8-10

even as it is written, "God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing, and ears not hearing" until this day.

2 Corinthians 4:4-6

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving ones, so that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ (who is the image of God) should not dawn on them.

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