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 hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

O LORD, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thy inheritance.

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.

And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel depart from his land.

And I, behold I, will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots and upon his horsemen.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

Not to many people of a strange speech and of a hard language, whose words thou canst not understand. Surely, had I sent thee to them, they would have hearkened to thee.

To the one we are the savor of death to death; and to the other the savor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

Fat

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Ears heavy

To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is to them a reproach; they have no delight in it.

But they refused to hearken, and withdrew the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

Convert

And the LORD will smite Egypt: he will smite and heal it: and they shall return even to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them.

For this people's heart is become gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

General references

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

The LORD shall smite thee with the madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.