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Isaiah 42:18-25

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18Hear, you who are deaf!

And look, you who are blind, so that you may see.

19Who is blind but My servant,

Or so deaf as My messenger whom I send?

Who is so blind as one who is at peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

20You have seen many things, but you do not retain them;

Your ears are open, but no one hears.

21The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake

To make the Law great and glorious.

22But this is a people plundered and pillaged;

All of them are trapped in caves,

Or are hidden away in prisons;

They have become plunder, with no one to save them,

And spoils with no one to say, “Give them back!”

23Who among you will listen to this?

Who will pay attention and listen in the time to come?

24Who gave Jacob up for spoils, and Israel to plunderers?

Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned,

And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,

And whose Law they did not obey?

25So He poured out on him the heat of His anger

And the fierceness of battle;

And it set him aflame all around,

Yet he did not recognize it;

And it burned him, but he paid no attention.