申命记 29:4

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

但是直到今日，耶和華還沒有給你們一顆能明白的心，能看見的眼睛，能聽見的耳朵。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
但 耶 和 华 到 今 日 没 有 使 你 们 心 能 明 白 ， 眼 能 看 见 ， 耳 能 听 见 。

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord commanded Moses to make an agreement with the Israelites in Moab in addition to the agreement he had made with them at Mount Sinai. These are the words of that agreement. ² Moses called all the Israelites together and said to them: You have seen everything the Lord did before your own eyes to the king of Egypt and to the king's leaders and to the whole country. ³ With your own eyes you saw the great troubles, signs, and miracles. ⁴ But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands; you don't really understand what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears. ⁵ I led you through the desert for forty years, and during that time neither your clothes nor sandals wore out. ⁶ You ate no bread and drank no wine or beer. This was so you would understand that I am the Lord your God. ⁷ When you came to this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight us, but we defeated them. ⁸ We captured their land and gave it to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh to be their own. ⁹ You must carefully obey everything in this agreement so that you will succeed in everything you do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:30, Proverbs 20:12, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 63:17, Ezekiel 36:26, Matthew 13:11-15, John 8:43, John 12:38-40, Acts 28:26, Acts 28:27, Romans 11:7-10, 2 Corinthians 3:15, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, 2 Timothy 2:25, James 1:13-17

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 20:33 - had not Psalms 106:7 - Our Psalms 141:4 - Incline not Isaiah 29:18 - the deaf Jeremiah 5:21 - O foolish Jeremiah 6:10 - their ear Ezekiel 12:2 - which Daniel 9:13 - that we Matthew 13:13 - General Mark 4:12 - That seeing Mark 8:18 - see Luke 8:10 - that seeing John 3:3 - he cannot John 12:40 - that they Romans 11:8 - eyes 2 Timothy 3:7 - learning

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and his daughter-in-law Sarai (Abram's wife) and moved out of Ur of Babylonia. They had planned to go to the land of Canaan, but when they reached the city of Haran, they settled there.

Genesis 24:10
The servant took ten of Abraham's camels and left, carrying with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Northwest Mesopotamia to Nahor's city.

Genesis 27:43
So, my son, do what I say. My brother Laban is living in Haran. Go to him at once!

Genesis 28:10
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Acts 7:2
Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me. Our glorious God appeared to Abraham, our ancestor, in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran.

Acts 7:4
So Abraham left the country of Chaldea and went to live in Haran. After Abraham's father died, God sent him to this place where you now live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of God displayed in them, the goodness of God to them on whose behalf they were wrought, in order to obtain their deliverance, and the vengeance of God on the Egyptians for detaining them; so Jarchi interprets it of an heart to know the mercies of the Lord, and to cleave unto him:

and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day; to see and observe the gracious dealings of God with them, and to hearken to his voice and obey it: so the understanding heart, the seeing eye, and hearing ear, in things spiritual, are from the Lord, are special gifts of his grace, which he bestows on some, and not on others; see Proverbs 20:12. The Targum of Jonathan is,

"the Word of the Lord did not give you an heart, &c.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ability to understand the things of God is the gift of God (compare 1 Corinthians 2:13-14); yet man is not guiltless if he lacks that ability. The people had it not because they had not felt their want of it, nor asked for it. Compare 2 Corinthians 3:14-15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 29:4. The Lord hath not given you a heart, c. — Some critics read this verse interrogatively: And hath not God given you a heart, c.? because they suppose that God could not reprehend them for the non-performance of a duty, when he had neither given them a mind to perceive the obligation of it, nor strength to perform it, had that obligation been known. Though this is strictly just, yet there is no need for the interrogation, as the words only imply that they had not such a heart, &c., not because God had not given them all the means of knowledge, and helps of his grace and Spirit, which were necessary but they had not made a faithful use of their advantages, and therefore they had not that wise, loving, and obedient heart which they otherwise might have had. If they had had such a heart, it would have been God's gift, for he is the author of all good and that they had not such a heart was a proof that they had grieved his Spirit, and abused the grace which he had afforded them to produce that gracious change, the want of which is here deplored. Hence God himself is represented as grieved because they were unchanged and disobedient: "O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children for ever!" See Deuteronomy 5:29, and the note there.