15 Bible Verses about Eyes That Cannot See And Ears That Cannot Hear

Isaiah 6:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

Acts 28:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed; lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Matthew 13:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

Romans 11:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

As it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.”

John 12:40 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, lest they see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn, and I would heal them.”

Mark 4:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So that “‘they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear but not understand, lest they should turn and be forgiven.’”

Ezekiel 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house.

Isaiah 44:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 43:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Bring out the people who are blind, yet have eyes, who are deaf, yet have ears!

Isaiah 42:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see! Who is blind but my servant, or deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as my dedicated one, or blind as the servant of the Lord? He sees many things, but does not observe them; his ears are open, but he does not hear.

Isaiah 35:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

Isaiah 29:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Psalm 135:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They have mouths, but do not speak; they have eyes, but do not see; they have ears, but do not hear, nor is there any breath in their mouths.

Deuteronomy 29:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

Jeremiah 5:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not.

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