Isaiah 44:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸They have not known nor understood: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

Isaiah 44:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 6:9-10
And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. …
2 Corinthians 4:3-4
But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: …
John 12:39-40
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again, …
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, …
Jeremiah 5:21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-20)

Often before, God, by the prophet, had mentioned the folly and strange sottishness of idolaters; but here he enlarges upon that head, and very fully and particularly exposes them to contempt and ridicule. This discourse is intended, 1. To arm the people of Israel against the strong temptation they would be in to worship idols when they were captives in Babylon, in compliance with the custom of the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 18)

18. he, &c.--God hath given them over to judicial blindness; not His direct physical, but His providential agency in administering His moral government, is meant (Is 6:9, 10). “Shut,” literally, “daubed,” plastered up; it is an Eastern custom in some cases to seal up the eyes of offenders.