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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 29:10 - 29:10
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Jehovah gives them up judicially to their own hardness of heart (compare Zec 14:13). Quoted by Paul, with variations from the Septuagint, Rom 11:8. See Isa 6:10; Psa 69:23.
eyes; the prophets, etc. - rather, “hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads (Margin; see also Isa 3:2), the seers, He hath covered.” The Orientals cover the head to sleep; thus “covered” is parallel to “closed your eyes” (Jdg 4:19). Covering the face was also preparatory to execution (Est 7:8). This cannot apply to the time when Isaiah himself prophesied, but to subsequent times.