Isaiah 29:10

New Living Translation

For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord has poured out on youan overwhelming urge to sleep;he has shut your eyes (the prophets)and covered your heads (the seers).

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.

King James Version
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.

English Standard Version
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

New American Standard Bible
For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes—the prophets; And He has covered your heads—the seers.

New Century Version
The Lord has made you go into a deep sleep. He has closed your eyes. (The prophets are your eyes.) He has covered your heads. (The seers are your heads.)

Amplified Bible
For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed your eyes, [you who are] the prophets; And He has covered your heads, [you who are] the seers.

World English Bible
For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lord hath couered you with a spirite of slumber, and hath shut vp your eyes: the Prophets, & your chiefe Seers hath he couered.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep;He has shut your eyes, the prophets;And He has covered your heads, the seers.

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

Contemporary English Version
The Lord has made you drowsy; he put you into a deep sleep and covered your head.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai has poured over you a spirit of lethargy; he has closed your eyes (that is, the prophets) and covered your heads (that is, the seers).

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

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord will make you sleepy. He will close your eyes. (The prophets are your eyes.) He will cover your heads. (The prophets are your heads.)

George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD has poured out upon them a spirit of deep sleep, and it has closed their eyes, and also the eyes of the prophets and rulers, and the seers, who see the hidden things.

Good News Translation
The Lord has made you drowsy, ready to fall into a deep sleep. The prophets should be the eyes of the people, but God has blindfolded them.

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and he has covered your heads, the seers.

Literal Translation
For Jehovah has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes. He has covered the prophets and your heads, the seers.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE shal geue you an hard slepinge sprete, and holde downe youre eyes: namely yor prophetes and heades which shulde se, them shal he couer.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord has sent on you a spirit of deep sleep; and by him your eyes, the prophets, are shut, and your heads, the seers, are covered.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD 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.

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord hath powred out vpon you the spirit of deepe sleepe, and hath closed your eyes: the Prophets and your rulers, the Seers hath hee couered.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde hath couered you with a slumbring spirite, and hath closed your eyes: your prophetes also and rulers that shoulde see, them hath he couered.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord has made you to drink a spirit of deep sleep; and he shall close their eyes, and the eyes of their prophets and of their rulers, who see secret things.

English Revised Version
For the LORD 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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the Lord hath meddlid to you the spirit of sleep; he schal close youre iyen, and schal hile youre profetis, and princes that sien visiouns.

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

New English Translation
For the Lord has poured out on you a strong urge to sleep deeply. He has shut your eyes (the prophets), and covered your heads (the seers).

New King James Version
For the LORD has poured out on you The spirit of deep sleep, And has closed your eyes, namely, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, namely, the seers.

New Life Bible
For the Lord has given you a deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, you who speak for God. He has covered your heads, men of God.

New Revised Standard
For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes, you prophets, and covered your heads, you seers.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For Yahweh, hath poured out upon you, a spirit of deep sleep, Yea hath tightly shut your eyes - the prophets, - And, your heads - the seers, hath he covered,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord hath mingled for you the spirit of a deep sleep, he will shut up your eyes, he will cover your prophets and princes, that see visions.

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.

Young's Literal Translation
For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes -- the prophets, And your heads -- the seers -- He covered.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For the LORD has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep, He has shut your eyes, the prophets; And He has covered your heads, the seers.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Are you amazed and incredulous? Don't you believe it? Then go ahead and be blind. You are stupid, but not from wine! You stagger, but not from liquor! ¹⁰ For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries. ¹¹ All the future events in this vision are like a sealed book to them. When you give it to those who can read, they will say, "We can't read it because it is sealed." ¹² When you give it to those who cannot read, they will say, "We don't know how to read." ¹³ And so the Lord says, "These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote. ¹⁴ Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear." ¹⁵ What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the Lord , who do their evil deeds in the dark! "The Lord can't see us," they say. "He doesn't know what's going on!" ¹⁶ How foolish can you be? He is the Potter, and he is certainly greater than you, the clay! Should the created thing say of the one who made it, "He didn't make me"? Does a jar ever say, "The potter who made me is stupid"?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the Lord: Isaiah 29:14, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, 1 Samuel 26:12, Psalms 69:23, Micah 3:6, Acts 28:26, Acts 28:27, Romans 11:8

hath closed: Isaiah 44:18, Ezekiel 14:9, 2 Corinthians 4:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12

rulers: Heb. heads, Isaiah 3:2, Isaiah 3:3, Micah 3:1

the seers: Isaiah 30:10, 1 Samuel 9:9, Jeremiah 26:8-11, Amos 7:12, Amos 7:13

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 33:18 - the seers Psalms 119:18 - Open Psalms 143:10 - the land Isaiah 9:15 - the prophet Isaiah 19:14 - hath mingled Isaiah 29:9 - they are Isaiah 29:18 - the deaf Isaiah 29:24 - also Isaiah 48:8 - thou heardest Isaiah 56:10 - are blind Jeremiah 2:8 - priests Jeremiah 4:9 - and the priests Jeremiah 4:22 - For my Lamentations 4:14 - have wandered Daniel 5:15 - General Amos 8:9 - that I Zephaniah 1:17 - they shall Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Zechariah 12:5 - the governors Matthew 11:25 - because Matthew 13:11 - Because Matthew 13:15 - their eyes Matthew 21:27 - We cannot tell Luke 11:34 - but Luke 19:42 - but Luke 24:45 - General John 3:10 - Art John 9:39 - might be John 12:40 - hath Acts 13:11 - thou Ephesians 1:18 - eyes 1 John 4:6 - and

Cross-References

Exodus 2:17
But some other shepherds came and chased them away. So Moses jumped up and rescued the girls from the shepherds. Then he drew water for their flocks.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 Apostle Paul produces this passage, in proof of that blindness that had happened unto them in his time, Romans 11:7:

and hath closed your eyes; that is, the eyes of their understandings, so that they could not see the characters of the Messiah, and the fulfilment of prophecies in Jesus of Nazareth; nor the danger they were in, nor the ruin that was coming upon their nation, nor even when it was come, still flattering themselves with safety and deliverance:

the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered; the eyes of them, as before; not only the common people were blinded, but even the Scribes and Pharisees, the elders of the people, their ecclesiastical rulers, who pretended to be seers, and to know more than others; even "for judgment", for the judicial blindness and hardness of these Christ "came, that they which see might be made blind", John 9:39. The words may be rendered, "your heads, the seers, hath he covered" t; and there may be an allusion to the covering of the head with a veil, an emblem of that veil of ignorance and infidelity which still remains upon the Jews. The Targum renders it,

"the prophets, and the Scribes, and the teachers that teach the law.''

t וראשיכם "et capita vestra, videntes, operuit", Montanus. So Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Exodus 30:9; Hosea 9:4; Isaiah 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 Isaiah 6:9-10). Compare the notes at Romans 11:8), where this passage is quoted from the Septuagint, and is applied to the Jews in the time of the apostle Paul.

The spirit of deep, sleep - The word rendered ‘deep sleep,’ is the same as is used in Genesis 2:21, to denote the sleep that God brought on Adam; and in Genesis 15:12, to denote the deep sleep that fell on Abraham, and when a horror of great darkness fell upon him; and in 1 Samuel 26:12, to denote the deep sleep that came upon Saul when David approached and took away the spear and the cruise of water from his bolster. Here it means spiritual sluggishness, inactivity, stupidity, that prevailed everywhere among the people in regard to the things of religion.

The seers - Those that see visions, another name for the prophets (see the note at Isaiah 1:1).

Hath he covered - That is, he has covered their eyes; or they are all blind.