Thematic Bible: Judicially inflicted


Thematic Bible



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.
Verse ConceptsHearingSeersSleep, SpiritualSleep, PhysicalSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfEyes HarmedProphecy AbolishedHead As Chiefprophets

Let their eyes grow too dim to see,
and let their loins continually shake.
Verse ConceptsBackGroups TremblingGod Blinding

Such people do not comprehend
and cannot understand,
for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see,
and their minds so they cannot understand.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual Blindness, In UnbelieversResponseVeilsGod BlindingBeing Without UnderstandingThose Who Were IgnorantEyesDiscernment

For this reason I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand. Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.

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