Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and healed.

none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.

I Jehovah keep it, I will water it every moment; lest any harm it, I will keep it night and day.

Now therefore be ye not scorners, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard from the Lord Jehovah of hosts a consumption, and one determined, upon the whole land.

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.

Behold, ye are less than nothing, and your work is of nought; an abomination is he that chooseth you. ...

so I have long ago declared them to thee; before they came to pass I caused thee to hear them; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, or my molten image hath commanded them.

they are created now, and not long ago; and before this day thou hast not heard them, lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.