Those who think they are wise are as good as dead, those who think they possess understanding.

Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”

Listen, your watchmen shout; in unison they shout for joy, for they see with their very own eyes the Lord’s return to Zion.

Men will be humiliated, they will be brought low; the proud will be brought low.

Their children will be smashed to pieces before their very eyes; their houses will be looted and their wives raped.

Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.

You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

He will take delight in obeying the Lord. He will not judge by mere appearances, or make decisions on the basis of hearsay.

Their arrows will cut young men to ribbons; they have no compassion on a person’s offspring, they will not look with pity on children.

At that time men will trust in their creator; they will depend on the Holy One of Israel.

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

Since you are precious and special in my sight, and I love you, I will hand over people in place of you, nations in place of your life.

They do not comprehend or understand, for their eyes are blind and cannot see; their minds do not discern.

We grope along the wall like the blind, we grope like those who cannot see; we stumble at noontime as if it were evening. Though others are strong, we are like dead men.

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.