Isaiah 42:18-25 - Blind And Deaf Israel

18 "Listen, you deaf people, and look up, you blind people, so you may see! 19 Who is blind except my servant, or deaf like my messenger I am sending? Who is blind like the one committed to me, or blind like the LORD's servant? 20 You've seen many things, but you pay no attention. His ears are open, but he doesn't listen.

21 The LORD was pleased, for the sake of his vindication, that he should magnify his Law and make it glorious. 22 But this is a people who have been robbed and plundered, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become prey, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, "Send them back!' 23 "Who among you will listen, and pay attention, and listen for the time to come?" 24 "Who handed Jacob over to looters, and Israel to robbers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? After all, they weren't willing to walk in his ways, and they wouldn't obey his instruction, 25 so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart."


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