⁷⁰ Their hearts are hard and insensitive,^(A)
but I delight in your instruction.^(B)

Go! Say to these people:
Keep listening, but do not understand;^(A)
keep looking, but do not perceive.
¹⁰ Make the minds^[a] of these people dull;
deafen their ears and blind their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes
and hear with their ears,
understand with their minds,
turn back, and be healed.^(B)

You will listen and listen,
but never understand;
you will look and look,
but never perceive.^(A)
15 For this people’s heart has grown callous;
their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and
understand with their hearts,
and turn back—
and I would heal them.^[a](B)

they may indeed look,
and yet not perceive;
they may indeed listen,
and yet not understand;^(A)
otherwise, they might turn back
and be forgiven.”^{[a][b] (B)}

Looking they may not see,
and hearing they may not understand.^[a](B)

⁴⁰ He has blinded^(A) their eyes
and hardened their hearts,^(B)
so that they would not see with their eyes
or understand with their hearts,
and turn,^(C)
and I would heal them.^[a](D)

God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes that cannot see
and ears that cannot hear,
to this day.^[a](A)