Because of this, I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
They do not know and not discern; for He has smeared their eyes from seeing, their hearts from understanding.
Now hear this, O foolish people, and not with a heart, eyes are to them, but do not see, ears are to them, but they do not hear.
Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house. They have eyes to see, but they do not see; ears are to them to hear, but they do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! They are saying of me, Does he not speak in parables?
But your eyes are blessed because they see; and your ears because they hear.
even as it is written, “God gave to them a spirit of slumber, eyes not seeing and ears not hearing” until today, this day. Isa. 29:10; Deut. 29:4