17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.
18Hear, you deaf; and look, you blind, that you may see.
19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger whom I send? Who is blind as he who is at peace, and blind as Yahweh`s servant?
20You see many things, but don`t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn`t hear.
21It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness` sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
22But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivers; for a spoil, and none says, Restore.
23Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?