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18 Heare O ye deafe men, and sharpen your eyes to see O ye blinde. 19 Who is blinde but my seruaunt? or so deafe as my messenger whom I sent vnto them? for who is so blinde as the perfect man, and so blinde as the Lords seruaunt? 20 Thou hast seene much, and kepest nothing: the eares are open, and no man heareth. 21 The Lorde is mercyfull vnto them for his righteousnesse sake, that his word might be magnified and praysed: 22 But the people them selues is robbed and troden vnder the foote, chayned in dungeons, and they all I say, are shut into prison houses: they be caryed away captiue, and no man doth loose them: they be troden vnder foote, and no man doth labour to bryng them agayne. 23 But who is he among you that pondereth this, that considereth it, and taketh it for a warning in tyme to come? 24 Who gaue Iacob to be troden vnder foote, and Israel to be spoyled? Did not the Lorde? Because we haue sinned against hym, and haue had no delight to walke in his wayes, neither ben obedient vnto his lawe: 25 Therfore he hath powred vpon hym his wrathfull displeasure and strong battayle, and hath fired hym on euery side, yet wyll he not vnderstand: he burneth hym vp, yet sinketh it not into his heart. Isaiah 42:18-25, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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