Isaiah 48:8

Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?

that ‘seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest perhaps they should turn again, and their sins should be forgiven them.’ ”

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

saying, ‘Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

Woe to you who destroy, but you weren’t destroyed, and who betray, but nobody betrayed you! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betrayal, you will be betrayed.

The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?

“For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says Yahweh.

“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant, and rebelled against my law.

Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.

though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

The offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

if like Adam I have covered my transgressions, by hiding my iniquity in my heart,

The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.

lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.

Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh; “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.

To what purpose does frankincense from Sheba come to me, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”

Yet they didn’t listen to me or incline their ear, but made their neck stiff. They did worse than their fathers.

I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from your youth, that you didn’t obey my voice.

Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

PERES: your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.”

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

Therefore tell them: Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Return to me,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will return to you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”

If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

But to the married I command—not I, but the Lord—that the wife not leave her husband

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

He also opens their ears to instruction, and commands that they return from iniquity.

Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Behold, I was born in iniquity. My mother conceived me in sin.

A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media’s sighing.

From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, “I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!” The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

Return to him from whom you have deeply revolted, children of Israel.

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

“Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel,” says Yahweh.

Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Yahweh our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice.”

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me,” says Yahweh.

‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

They are unfaithful to Yahweh; for they have borne illegitimate children. Now the new moon will devour them with their fields.

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.