18 aHear, you deaf!

And look, you blind, that you may see.

19 Who is blind but My aservant,

Or so deaf as My bmessenger whom I send?

Who is so blind as he that is 1cat peace with Me,

Or so blind as the servant of the Lord?

20 aYou have seen many things, but you do not observe them;

Your ears are open, but none hears.

21 The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake

To make the law agreat and glorious.

22 But this is a people plundered and despoiled;

All of them are atrapped in 1caves,

Or are bhidden away in prisons;

They have become a prey with none to deliver them,

And a spoil, with none to say, “Give them back!”

23 Who among you will give ear to this?

Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

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

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

And in whose ways they awere not willing to walk,

And whose law they did not bobey?

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

And the afierceness of battle;

And it set him aflame all around,

Yet he did not recognize it;

And it burned him, but he 1bpaid no attention.