Isaiah 29:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 10) For the Lord has mixed into you the spirit of deep sleep: he will close your eyes, your prophets and leaders who see visions he will cover. For the spirit of sleep, LXX, is interpreted as compunction: Theodotius, the passing away of the mind: Aquila, καταφορὰν, that is, a heavy sleep; which in Hebrew is called Thardema (), which Scripture commemorates as sent by God to Adam (Gen. II), when woman was made from the rib of his side. And Jonah snored in the same sleep on the ship (Jon. I).

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

For the Lord hath poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep,.... Gave them up to a stupid frame of spirit; to a reprobate mind, a mind void of judgment and sense; to judicial blindness and hardness of heart: this was remarkably fulfilled in the Jews, in the times of Christ and his apostles, who choosing darkness rather than the light of the Gospel, which shone around them, were righteously given up to such a temper of mind; and to nothing else can be imputed their obstinate rejection of the Messiah, against the most glaring light and evidence.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For the Lord hath poured out upon you - The word rendered ‘hath poured out’ (נסך nâsak) is usually referred to the act of pouring out a libation, or drink-offering in worship Exo 30:9; Hos 9:4; Isa 30:1. Here it means that Yahweh had, as it were, “drenched them” (Septuagint, πεπότικε pepotike) with a spirit of stupefaction. This is traced to God in accordance with the usual custom in the Bible, by which his providential agency is recognized in all events (see the notes at Isa 6:9-10).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
נָסַ֨ךְ	na.Sakh	he has poured out	H5258 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֤ם	'a.lei.Khem	on you	H5921 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
ר֣וּחַ	Ru.ach	a spirit of	H7307 →
תַּרְדֵּמָ֔ה	tar.de.Mah	deep sleep	H8639 →
וַיְעַצֵּ֖ם	vay.'a.Tzem	and he has shut	H6105 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
עֵֽינֵיכֶ֑ם	'ei.nei.Khem	eyes your	H5869 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַנְּבִיאִ֛ים	ha.ne.vi.'Im	the prophets	H5030 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
רָאשֵׁיכֶ֥ם	ra.shei.Khem	heads your	H7218 →
הַחֹזִ֖ים	ha.cho.Zim	the seers	H2374 →
כִּסָּֽה׃	ki.Sah	he has covered	H3680 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 44:18
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
leads to
- Jeremiah 5:21
  “Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 6:9–10
  And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’
- 2 Corinthians 4:3–4
  And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
- John 12:39–40
  For this reason they were unable to believe. For again, Isaiah says:
- 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12
  The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder,
Through
Romans 11:8
as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 29:4
  Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
- Ezekiel 12:2
  “Son of man, you are living in a rebellious house. They have eyes to see but do not see, and ears to hear but do not hear, for they are a rebellious house.
- 2 Corinthians 3:14–15
  But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

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