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THE MESSAGE
Deuteronomy 29:4
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Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even to this day.
But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.
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.
But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart and mind to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, & eares to heare, vnto this day.
Yet to this day Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
He has even told you, "For forty years I, the Lord , led you through the desert, but your clothes and your sandals didn't wear out, and I gave you special food. I did these things so you would realize that I am your God." But the Lord must give you a change of heart before you truly understand what you have seen and heard.
I led you forty years in the desert. Neither the clothes on your body nor the shoes on your feet wore out.
But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
But even today, you still don't understand what happened. The Lord has not let you really understand what you saw and heard.
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear.
But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.
Yet Jehovah has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
And yet vnto this daye hath not the LORDE geuen you an hert that vnderstondeth, eyes that se, & eares that heare.
but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.
And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
but the LORD hath not given you an heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
And the Lord yaf not to you an herte vndurstondynge, and iyen seynge, and eeris that moun here, til in to present dai.
and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,
but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.
But to this day the Lord has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
yet hath Yahweh not given onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see or ears to hear, - until this day.
And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.
but to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
Contextual Overview
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
Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (Haran's son), and Sarai his daughter-in-law (his son Abram's wife) and set out with them from Ur of the Chaldees for the land of Canaan. But when they got as far as Haran, they settled down there.
The servant took ten of his master's camels and, loaded with gifts from his master, traveled to Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor. Outside the city, he made the camels kneel at a well. It was evening, the time when the women came to draw water. He prayed, "O God , God of my master Abraham, make things go smoothly this day; treat my master Abraham well! As I stand here by the spring while the young women of the town come out to get water, let the girl to whom I say, ‘Lower your jug and give me a drink,' and who answers, ‘Drink, and let me also water your camels'—let her be the woman you have picked out for your servant Isaac. Then I'll know that you're working graciously behind the scenes for my master."
Jacob left Beersheba and went to Haran. He came to a certain place and camped for the night since the sun had set. He took one of the stones there, set it under his head and lay down to sleep. And he dreamed: A stairway was set on the ground and it reached all the way to the sky; angels of God were going up and going down on it.
Stephen replied, "Friends, fathers, and brothers, the God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was still in Mesopotamia, before the move to Haran, and told him, ‘Leave your country and family and go to the land I'll show you.'
"So he left the country of the Chaldees and moved to Haran. After the death of his father, he immigrated to this country where you now live, but God gave him nothing, not so much as a foothold. He did promise to give the country to him and his son later on, even though Abraham had no son at the time. God let him know that his offspring would move to an alien country where they would be enslaved and brutalized for four hundred years. ‘But,' God said, ‘I will step in and take care of those slaveholders and bring my people out so they can worship me in this place.'
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.
