Blindness

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Isaiah 42:7 OT

  to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

• Isaiah 42:18-20 OT

  “Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see. Who is blind, but my servant? Or who is as deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is as blind as he who is at peace, and as blind as Yahweh’s servant? You see many things, but don’t…

• Isaiah 44:18-20 OT

  They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand. No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the…

• Isaiah 48:8 OT

  Yes, you didn’t hear. Yes, you didn’t know. Yes, from of old your ear was not opened, for I knew that you dealt very treacherously, and were called a transgressor from the womb.

• Isaiah 53:1 OT

  Who has believed our message? To whom has Yahweh’s arm been revealed?

• Isaiah 56:10 OT

  His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

• Isaiah 60:2 OT

  For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

• Jeremiah 2:8 OT

  The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

• Jeremiah 4:22 OT

  “For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

• Jeremiah 5:4 OT

  Then I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don’t know the Yahweh’s way, nor the law of their God.

• Jeremiah 5:5 OT

  I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

• Jeremiah 5:21 OT

  ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

• Jeremiah 8:7-9 OT

  Yes, the stork in the sky knows her appointed times. The turtledove, the swallow, and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people don’t know Yahweh’s law. “ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But,…

• Jeremiah 9:3 OT

  “They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 9:6 OT

  Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 16:10 OT

  It will happen, when you tell this people all these words, and they ask you, ‘Why has Yahweh pronounced all this great evil against us?’ or ‘What is our iniquity? or ‘What is our sin that we have committed against Yahweh our God?’

• Jeremiah 17:9 OT

  The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

• Ezekiel 12:2 OT

  “Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

• Daniel 12:10 OT

  Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

• Hosea 4:1 OT

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:6 OT

  My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

• Hosea 4:14 OT

  I will not punish your daughters when they play the prostitute, nor your brides when they commit adultery; because the men consort with prostitutes, and they sacrifice with the shrine prostitutes; so the people without understanding will…

• Hosea 5:4 OT

  Their deeds won’t allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they don’t know Yahweh.

• Hosea 7:11 OT

  “Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.