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18 Hear, O you deaf! And understand and see, O you blind! 19 Who is blind but my servant? Who is deaf as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as the ruler? and blind as the LORD'S servant? 20 I gave you counsel, but you observed it not; I opened your ears, but you heard not. 21 The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law and make it honorable. 22 But this is a people robbed and downtrodden; all the young men are snared, and they are hid in prison houses; they have become a prey, and there is none to deliver; and trampled upon, and there is none to restore. 23 Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken to the other counsel? 24 Who gave Jacob to be trod under foot and Israel for a spoil? Was it not the LORD, because we have sinned against him? For we would not walk in his ways, neither were we obedient to his law. 25 Therefore he has poured upon them the fury of his anger and the fierceness of battle; and it has set them on fire round about, yet they knew it not; and it burned them, yet they laid it not to heart. Isaiah 42:18-25, Lamsa Bible. Public domain.
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