9 And he said, d“Go, and say to this people:
e“‘Keep on hearing,1 but do not understand;
keep on seeing,2 but do not perceive.’
10 fMake the heart of this people dull,3
and their ears heavy,
and gblind their eyes;
lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their hearts,
and turn and be healed.”
13 And the word of the Lord will be to them
precept upon precept, precept upon precept,
line upon line, line upon line,
here a little, there a little,
that they may go, and lfall backward,
and be broken, and snared, and taken.
11 And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is asealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” 12 And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
