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Isaiah 42:20-25

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20 Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear?
20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it.
21 It pleased the LORDfor the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
22 But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore.
22 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 is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come?
23 Which of you will listen to this or pay close attention in time to come?
24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law.
24 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 out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not.
25 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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