Isaiah 44:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Have not

Romans 1:21

For he hath

Cannot

General references

Isaiah 43:8

Matthew 13:13

Matthew 24:39

Bible References

Have not

Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.

Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, escaped ones of the nations; those who set up the wood of their graven image, and those that pray to a god that cannot save. They know nothing.

They carry it on the shoulder, they carry it and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yes, one shall cry to it, yet it cannot answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

But they are all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were thankful. But they became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

For he hath

Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back, and be healed.

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.

So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their own hearts; and they walked in their own conceits.

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;

who in past generations allowed all nations to walk in their own ways.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right,

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

But also if our gospel is hidden, it is hidden to those being lost,

whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Cannot

Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough; and they are shepherds who cannot understand. They all look to their own way, every one for his gain, to his own end.

A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

then you shall understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.

Evil men do not understand judgment; but those who seek Jehovah understand all things.

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

Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Understanding, and he shall know them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but sinners shall fall in them.

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?

Why do you not know My speech? Because you cannot hear My Word.

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again,

having eyes full of adultery and never ceasing from sin, alluring unstable souls, having a heart exercised with covetousness. They are cursed children

General references

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not; nor do they understand.

And they did not know until the flood came and took them all away. So also will be the coming of the Son of Man.