Once I have spoken, but I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further."

God has spoken once, Twice I have heard this: That power [belongs] to God.

And the LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they would not listen.

Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,

And He said, "Go, and tell this people: 'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'

"And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: 'Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive;

But Jesus, being aware of [it,] said to them, "Why do you reason because you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive nor understand? Is your heart still hardened?

"Having eyes, do you not see? And having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!

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