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18 Deaf people, listen! And blind people, look to see!
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“Hear, you deaf; look, you blind, and see!
19 Who [is] blind but my servant or deaf like my messenger [whom] I sent? Who [is] blind like the one who is repaid or blind like the servant of Yahweh?
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Who is blind but my servant, and deaf like the messenger I send? Who is blind like the one in covenant with me, blind like the servant of the LORD?
20 You see many [things], but you do not observe. [His] ears are open, but he does not hear.
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You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 Yahweh was willing for the sake of his righteousness; he showed [his] teaching to be great and proved [it] to be glorious.
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It pleased the LORDfor the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
22 But this [is] a people plundered and looted; all of them are trapped in holes, and they are kept hidden in houses of imprisonment. They have become like plunder, and there is no one who saves; [like] booty, and there is no one who says, "Restore!"
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But this is a people plundered and looted, all of them trapped in pits or hidden away in prisons. They have become plunder, with no one to rescue them; they have been made loot, with no one to say, “Send them back.”
23 Who among you will heed this, will listen attentively and listen, for {the time to come}?
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Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob to a plunderer and Israel to those who plunder? [Was it] not Yahweh, against whom<note: Or "this"> we have sinned? And they were not willing to walk in his ways, and they would not {obey}<note: Literally "hear"> his law.
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Who handed Jacob over to become loot, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? For they would not follow his ways; they did not obey his law.
25 So he poured [the] wrath [of] his anger upon him and [the] strength of war. And it set him afire all around, but he did not understand; and it burned him, but he did not take [it] to heart.
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So he poured out on them his burning anger, the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.
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