Isaiah 44:18 Cross References - Bishops

¹⁸ Yet men neither consider nor vnderstande, because their eyes be stopped that they can not see, and their heartes that they can not perceaue

¹² So I gaue them vp vnto the wicked cogitations of their owne heartes: and I did let them folowe their owne imaginations

⁶ An vnwise man doth not consider this: and a foole doth not vnderstande it

⁵ Then shalt thou vnderstand the feare of the Lorde, and finde the knowledge of God ⁶ For the Lorde geueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstandyng ⁷ He stirreth vp health for the righteous: and defendeth them that walke vprightly ⁸ That they may kepe the right path: and he preserueth the way of such as do serue him with godlinesse ⁹ Then shalt thou vnderstande righteousnesse, and iudgement, and equitie, yea and euery good path

⁵ Wicked men vnderstande not iudgement: but they that seeke the Lord, vnderstande all thinges

³ The oxe hath knowen his owner, and the asse his maisters cribbe: [but] Israel hath not knowen, my people hath geuen no heede

⁹ And he sayd, Go and tell this people: Heare in deede, yet vnderstande not, ye shall playnely see, and yet perceaue not ¹⁰ Harden the heart of this people, stop their eares, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, heare with their eares, and vnderstande with their heartes, and conuert and be healed

¹⁰ 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

⁹ All caruers of images are but vayne, and the carued images that they loue can do no good: they must beare recorde them selues, that seeing they can neither see nor vnderstande, they shalbe confounded

²⁰ Thus doth he but lose his labour, and his heart whiche is deceaued doth turne hym aside, so that none of them can haue a free conscience to thinke, Do not I erre

²⁰ Gather you and come together, drawe nigh hither you that escaped of the people: they haue no vnderstanding that set vp the stockes of their idols, and pray vnto a god that can not helpe them

⁷ Yet must he be taken on mens shoulders and borne, and set in his place, that he may stande, and not moue out of his place: And if one crye vnto hym, he geueth no aunswere, and deliuereth not the man that calleth vpon hym from his trouble ⁸ Consider this well, and be ashamed: go into your owne selues

¹¹ They are shamelesse dogges that be neuer satisfied: The sheepheardes also in like maner haue no vnderstandyng, but euery man turneth his owne way, euery one after his owne couetousnesse with all his power

²¹ Heare this thou foolishe and vndiscreete people, ye haue eyes but ye see not, eares haue ye but ye heare not

⁸ They are altogether brutishe and vnwise in this one thing: wood is the teaching of vanitie

¹⁴ His wisdome maketh all men fooles, and confounded be casters of images: for that they cast, is but a vayne thing, and hath no life

¹⁰ Many shalbe purified, made white, and tryed: but the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shal haue vnderstanding, but the wyse shall vnderstande

⁹ Who so is wise, shall vnderstande these thinges, and he that is right instruct wyll regarde them: for the wayes of the Lorde are righteous, such as be godly wyll walke in them: as for the wicked, they shall stumble therin

³⁴ O generation of vipers, howe can ye speake good thynges, when ye your selues are euyll? For out of the aboundauce of the heart, the mouth speaketh

¹⁴ And in them is fulfylled the prophesie of Esaias, saying: by hearyng ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstande, and seeyng, ye shall see, & shall not perceaue ¹⁵ For this peoples heart is waxed grosse, and their eares are dull of hearyng, and their eyes haue they closed: lest at any tyme they shoulde see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and shoulde vnderstande with their heart, & shoulde conuert, that I myght heale them

⁴⁴ Howe can ye beleue, whiche receaue honour one of another, and seke not the honour that commeth of God only

⁴³ Why do ye not knowe my speache? euen because ye cannot heare my word

³⁹ Therfore coulde they not beleue, because that Esaias sayth agayne ⁴⁰ He hath blynded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they shoulde not see with their eyes, & lest they should vnderstande with their hearte, & should be conuerted, and I should heale them

¹⁶ The which in tymes past suffred all nations to walke in their owne wayes

²¹ Because that when they knewe God, they glorified hym not as God, neither were thankefull, but waxed full of vanities in their imaginations, and their foolishe heart was blynded ²² When they counted them selues wyse, they became fooles ²³ And turned the glorie of the immortall God, vnto an image, made not only after the similitude of a mortal man, but also of birdes, and foure footed beastes, and of crepyng beastes

²⁸ And as they regarded not to knowe God: euen so God deliuered them vp vnto a leude mynde, that they should do those thinges which were not comely

⁸ Accordyng as it is written: God hath geuen them the spirite of remorse, eyes that they shoulde not see, and eares that they shoulde not heare, euen vnto this day ⁹ And Dauid sayth: Let their table be made a snare, and a trappe, and a stumbling stocke, and a recompence vnto the ¹⁰ Let their eyes be blinded yt they see not, & bowe thou downe their backe alway

³ Yf our Gospell be yet hyd, it is hyd in them that are lost ⁴ In whom the god of this worlde hath blinded the myndes of them whiche beleue not, lest the lyght of the Gospell of the glorie of Christe (which is the image of God) should shine vnto them

⁹ [Euen hym] whose commyng is after the workyng of Satan, in all power & signes, and wonders, of lying ¹⁰ And in all deceauablenesse of vnryghteousnesse, in them that peryshe: because they receaued not the loue of the trueth, that they myght be saued ¹¹ And therefore God shall sende them strong delusion, that they should beleue lyes ¹² That all they myght be dampned whiche beleued not the trueth, but had pleasure in vnryghteousnes

¹⁴ Hauyng eyes full of adulterie, & that can not ceasse from sinne, begylyng vnstable soules: Heartes they haue exercised with robberie, they are cursed chyldren