The Darby Translation DBY
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20 -- seeing many things, and thou observest not? With opened ears, he heareth not.
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You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 Jehovah had delight [in him] for his righteousness' sake: he hath magnified the law, and made it honourable.
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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 robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and hidden in prison-houses; they are become a prey, and none delivereth, -- a spoil, and none saith, 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 give ear to this, [who] will hearken and hear what is 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 for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto 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 And he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he took it not 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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