17 They are turned back; they shall be ashamed, that trust in the graven images, that say to the molten image, Ye are our gods.
18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.
19 Who is blind, but my servant, and deaf, but my messenger whom I (shall) send? who is blind as the surrendered one, and blind as the Lord's servant?
20 Thou hast seen many things, but thou observest Inot: opening the ears, and he heareth not.
21 The Lord was pleased for his righteousness’ sake: he make the law great, and make it glorious.
22 And it is a people spoiled and robbed: snared in holes all of them, and hidden in houses of confinement; they are for a spoil, and there is none that delivereth; a prey, and none that saith, Restore.
23 Who among you will give ear to this? will hearken, and hear for the time to come?
24 Who gave up Jacob for a prey, and Israel to spoilers? was it not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and heard not his law.