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?
24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Didn`t Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient to his law.
25Therefore he poured on him the fierceness of his anger, and the strength of battle; and it set him on fire round about, yet he didn`t know; and it burned him, yet he didn`t lay it to heart.
