according as it is written, {\b God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day.}
Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.
And he said, {\cf6 Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to the rest in parables; that {\b seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.}
saying,\par\tab {\b Go thou unto this people, and say,\par\tab By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand;\par\tab And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:}
So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children's children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
Unto this day they do after the former manner: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law or after the commandment which Jehovah commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
and I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through {\i the fire} all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am Jehovah.\par