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Isaiah 29

Isa. 29:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ford the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
hath poured out
nacak (Hebrew #5258)
to pour out, especially a libation, or to cast (metal); by analogy, to anoint a king
KJV usage: cover, melt, offer, (cause to) pour (out), set (up).
Pronounce: naw-sak'
Origin: a primitive root
upon you the spirit
ruwach (Hebrew #7307)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions)
KJV usage: air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
Pronounce: roo'-akh
Origin: from 7306
of deep sleep
tardemah (Hebrew #8639)
a lethargy or (by implication) trance
KJV usage: deep sleep.
Pronounce: tar-day-maw'
Origin: from 7290
, and hath closed
`atsam (Hebrew #6105)
to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; denominatively (from 6106) to crunch the bones
KJV usage: break the bones, close, be great, be increased, be (wax) mighty(-ier), be more, shut, be(-come, make) strong(-er).
Pronounce: aw-tsam'
Origin: a primitive root
your eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
: the prophets
nabiy' (Hebrew #5030)
a prophet or (generally) inspired man
KJV usage: prophecy, that prophesy, prophet.
Pronounce: naw-bee'
Origin: from 5012
and your λrulers
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
, the seers
chozeh (Hebrew #2374)
a beholder in vision; also a compact (as looked upon with approval)
KJV usage: agreement, prophet, see that, seer, (star-)gazer.
Pronounce: kho-zeh'
Origin: active participle of 2372
f hath he covered
kacah (Hebrew #3680)
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Pronounce: kaw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Rom. 11:8• 8even as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes so as not to see, and ears so as not to hear, until this day.” (Rom. 11:8)
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heads,
Isa. 1:5• 5Why be smitten any more? Ye will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Isa. 1:5)
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1 Sam. 9:9• 9{i}(In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.){/i} (1 Sam. 9:9)

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Ministry on This Verse

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the Lord.
Isa. 29:14• 14therefore, behold, I will proceed to do marvelously among this people, to do marvelously even with wonder; and the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent ones shall be hid. (Isa. 29:14)
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Isa. 6:9‑10• 9And he said, Go and tell this people, Hear indeed, but understand not; and see indeed, but perceive not.
 10Make the heart of this people fat, and make its ears heavy, and smear its eyes: lest it see with its eyes, and hear with its ears, and its heart understand, and it be converted, and be healed. (Isa. 6:9‑10)
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1 Sam. 26:12• 12But David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul's bolster; and they gat them away, and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither awaked: for they were all asleep; because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them. (1 Sam. 26:12)
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Psa. 69:23• 23Let their eyes be dark from seeing,{HR}And their loins continually cause to swerve. (Psa. 69:23)
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Mic. 3:6• 6{i}therefore{/i} {i}ye shall have night without{/i} a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them. (Mic. 3:6)
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Acts 28:26‑27• 26saying, Go unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear and in no wise understand, with seeing ye shall see and in no wise perceive.
 27For the heart of this people became gross, and with [their] ears they became dull of hearing, and [their] eyes have they closed, lest they should see with [their] eyes and hear with [their] ears and understand with the heart, and return, and I should heal them. (Acts 28:26‑27)
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Rom. 11:8• 8even as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of slumber, eyes so as not to see, and ears so as not to hear, until this day.” (Rom. 11:8)
hath closed.
Isa. 44:18• 18They have no knowledge and understand not: for he hath plastered their eyes, that they see not; [and] their hearts that they understand not. (Isa. 44:18)
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Ezek. 14:9• 9And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I Jehovah have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. (Ezek. 14:9)
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2 Cor. 4:4• 4in whom the god of this age blinded the minds of the faithless, that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth. (2 Cor. 4:4)
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2 Thess. 2:9‑12• 9whose coming is according to the working of Satan in all power and signs and wonders of falsehood,
 10and in all deceit of unrighteousness for those that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.
 11And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error that they should believe falsehood,
 12that all might be judged who believed not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess. 2:9‑12)
rulers.
Heb. heads.
Isa. 3:2‑3• 2the mighty man, and the man of war; the judge, and the prophet, and the diviner, and the elder;
 3the captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the skillful enchanter. (Isa. 3:2‑3)
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Mic. 3:1• 1{i}And I said{/i}, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? (Mic. 3:1)
the seers.
Isa. 30:10• 10that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: (Isa. 30:10)
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1 Sam. 9:9• 9{i}(In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.){/i} (1 Sam. 9:9)
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Jer. 26:8‑11• 8Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.
 9Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
 10When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of Jehovah, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of Jehovah's house.
 11Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes, and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy to die, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears. (Jer. 26:8‑11)
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Amos 7:12‑13• 12Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
 13but prophesy not again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. (Amos 7:12‑13)
• {v.10-12} Neither the learned nor the unlearned had any reference to His word. (“Isaiah 29” by F.B. Hole)
• We find the Apostle Paul alluding to this scripture in Acts 13:41, for he spoke of prophets— in the plural— and so he did not only have Habakkuk 1:5 in his mind. If men close their eyes against the light and turn things upside down, they have to reap the fruit of their ways. How much of today’s religion is just a matter of drawing near to God with the mouth while the heart is far away from Him? (“Isaiah 29” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For Jehovah hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and hath closeda your eyes; the prophets and your chiefs, the seers, hath he covered.

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Lit. "to shut strongly." so ch. 33.15.

W. Kelly Translation

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