Isaiah 6:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 heart, and convert, and be healed.

The heart

Fat

Deuteronomy 32:15

Psalm 17:10

Ears heavy

Jeremiah 6:10

Zechariah 7:11

Convert

Isaiah 19:22

Matthew 13:15

General references

Exodus 10:20

Deuteronomy 28:28

Deuteronomy 29:4

Bible References

The heart

For the Lord has poured out on you
an overwhelming urge to sleep;
He has shut your eyes—the prophets,
and covered your heads—the seers.

Why, Yahweh, do You make us stray from Your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear You.
Return, because of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.

But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he was unwilling to let them go.

Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let the Israelites go out of his land.

I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them, and I will receive glory by means of Pharaoh, all his army, and his chariots and horsemen.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.

You are not being sent to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. No doubt, if I sent you to them, they would listen to you.

To some we are an aroma of death leading to death, but to others, an aroma of life leading to life. And who is competent for this?

Fat

Then Jeshurun

became fat and rebelled—

you became fat, bloated, and gorged.
He abandoned the God who made him
and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

They have become hardened;

their mouths speak arrogantly.

Ears heavy

Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,

so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

Convert

The Lord will strike Egypt, striking and healing. Then they will return to the Lord and He will hear their prayers and heal them.

For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their hearts
and turn back—
and I would cure them.

General references

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.

The Lord will afflict you with madness, blindness, and mental confusion,

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.