You shall hear indeed, but you shall not understand; and you shall see indeed, but you shall not perceive.

For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.

O Lord, Your arm is exalted, yet they knew it not; but when they know they shall be ashamed; jealously shall seize upon an untaught nation, and now fire shall devour the adversaries.

Faint, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink, nor with wine.

And all these things shall be to you as the words of this sealed book, which if they shall give to a learned man, saying, Read this, he shall then say, I cannot read [it], for it is sealed.

For from among the nations, behold, [there was] no one; and of their idols there was none to declare [anything]; and if I should ask them, Where are you from? They could not answer Me.

And who is blind, but My servants? And [who is] deaf, but those that rule over them? Yes, the servants of God have been made blind.

You have often seen, and have not taken heed; [your] ears have been opened, and you have not heard.

They have no understanding to perceive; for they have been blinded so that they should not see with their eyes, nor perceive with their heart.

Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.

The wise men are ashamed, and alarmed, and taken; because they have rejected the word of the Lord; what wisdom is there in them?

And the Lord said to me, Take to yourself shepherd's implements belonging to an unskillful shepherd.

Alas for the vain shepherds that have forsaken the sheep! The sword shall be upon the arms of such a one, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be completely withered, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty.

And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have been partial in the law.

And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

And Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see might become blind."

and in all deception of unrighteousness among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

so that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

And in just the way Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, thus also these resist the truth: men corrupted in mind, disapproved regarding the faith.

But they shall not advance further, for their folly shall be manifest to all, as also theirs became.

knowing this first: that mockers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts,