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Isaiah 42:20-25

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20 You see many things, but don't observe. His ears are open, but he doesn't hear.
20 You have seen many things, but you pay no attention; your ears are open, but you do not listen.”
21 It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.
21 It pleased the LORDfor the sake of his righteousness to make his law great and glorious.
22 But 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.
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 who will give ear to this? who will listen and hear for the time to come?
23 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? Didn't Yahweh? he against whom we have sinned, and in whose ways they would not walk, neither were they obedient 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 Therefore 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.
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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