‘ Go and say to this people: When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.

他说：‘你去告诉这百姓说：你们听是要听见，却不明白；看是要看见，却不晓得；

他说：‘你去对这百姓说：你们听了又听，却不明白；看了又看，却看不清。

他说：‘你去对这百姓说：你们听了又听，却不明白；看了又看，却看不清。

祂说，“‘你去告诉百姓，你们听了又听，却不明白；看了又看，却不领悟。

他说：‘你去告诉这人民：你们听是听见了，总是不明白；看是看见了，总是不领悟。

他说：‘你去告诉这子民：你们将听了又听，但绝不会领悟；你们将看了又看，但绝不会明白；

他說：你去告訴這百姓說：你們聽是要聽見，卻不明白；看是要看見，卻不曉得；

他說：『你去對這百姓說：你們聽了又聽，卻不明白；看了又看，卻看不清。

他說：『你去對這百姓說：你們聽了又聽，卻不明白；看了又看，卻看不清。

祂說，『你去告訴百姓，你們聽了又聽，卻不明白；看了又看，卻不領悟。

他說：‘你去告訴這人民：你們聽是聽見了，總是不明白；看是看見了，總是不領悟。

他說：「你去告訴這人民說：你們要聽了又聽，卻決不領悟；要看了又看，卻決不看見；

他說：『你去告訴這子民：你們將聽了又聽，但絕不會領悟；你們將看了又看，但絕不會明白；

往告此民曰、爾將聽而不聰、視而不明、

往告此民曰、爾將耳聞而不聰、目視而不明、

其言云、往告此民曰、爾將聽而不聰、視而不明、

其言曰：「往告斯民曰、爾聽而不悟、視而不見；

“‘ Go to this people and say,“ You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

“‘ Go to your people. Say to them,“ You will hear but never understand. You will see but never know what you are seeing.”

“‘ Go to this people, and say,“ You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.”

when he said, Go to these people and say: You will always be listening, but never understanding; and you will always be looking, but never perceiving.

saying,‘ Go to this people and say,“ You will keep on hearing, and will not understand; And you will keep on seeing, and will not perceive;

saying,‘ Go to this people and say:“ Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; And seeing you will see, and not perceive;

saying, Go thou unto this people, and say, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:

when He said, Go to these people and say: You will listen and listen, yet never understand; and you will look and look, yet never perceive.

Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive:

when he said,‘ Go to this people and say,“ You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.

saying,‘ Go to this people and say, in hearing, you will hear, but will in no way understand. In seeing, you will see, but will in no way perceive.

And he said,“ Yes, go, and say to this people,‘ Listen carefully, but do not understand. Watch closely, but learn nothing.’Harden the hearts of these people. Plug their ears and shut their eyes. That way, they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts and turn to me for healing.”

“ Son of man, you live among rebels who have eyes but refuse to see. They have ears but refuse to hear. For they are a rebellious people.

Who is as blind as my own people, my servant? Who is as deaf as my messenger? Who is as blind as my chosen people, the servant of the Lord?You see and recognize what is right but refuse to act on it. You hear with your ears, but you don’t really listen.”

so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled:‘ When they see what I do, they will learn nothing. When they hear what I say, they will not understand. Otherwise, they will turn to me and be forgiven.’”

This fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah that says,‘ When you hear what I say, you will not understand. When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.’

He replied,“ You are permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of God. But I use parables to teach the others so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled:‘ When they look, they won’t really see. When they hear, they won’t understand.’

But to this day the Lord has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!

Satan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don’t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don’t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.You see, we don’t go around preaching about ourselves. We preach that Jesus Christ is Lord, and we ourselves are your servants for Jesus’ sake.For God, who said,“ Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.

Then Jesus said to them,“ You foolish people! You find it so hard to believe all that the prophets wrote in the Scriptures.

Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said,“ Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don’t you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in?‘ You have eyes— can’t you see? You have ears— can’t you hear?’ Don’t you remember anything at all?

As the Scriptures say,“ God has put them into a deep sleep. To this day he has shut their eyes so they do not see, and closed their ears so they do not hear.”Likewise, David said,“ Let their bountiful table become a snare, a trap that makes them think all is well. Let their blessings cause them to stumble, and let them get what they deserve.Let their eyes go blind so they cannot see, and let their backs be bent forever.”

No, I am not sending you to people with strange and difficult speech. If I did, they would listen!But the people of Israel won’t listen to you any more than they listen to me! For the whole lot of them are hard hearted and stubborn.

Because of this, I will once again astound these hypocrites with amazing wonders. The wisdom of the wise will pass away, and the intelligence of the intelligent will disappear.”

This is exactly what Isaiah the prophet had predicted:“ Lord, who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm?”But the people couldn’t believe, for as Isaiah also said,“ The Lord has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts— so that their eyes cannot see, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to me and have me heal them.”

Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear.

“ But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.So I let them follow their own stubborn desires, living according to their own ideas.

For the Lord has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has closed the eyes of your prophets and visionaries.

I will send them great trouble— all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned before my very eyes and chose to do what they know I despise.”